Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Supreme Court rejects hearing on military detention case | Reuters

Supreme Court rejects hearing on military detention case | Reuters: The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday handed a victory to President Barack Obama's administration by declining to hear a challenge to a law that allows the U.S. military to indefinitely detain people believed to have helped al Qaeda or the Taliban.

The high court left intact a July 2013 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision that journalists and others who said they could be detained under the law, did not have standing to sue.

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