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Senate Votes To Remove Prisoners’ Right to Challenge Detentions

On Capital Hill Thursday, the Senate voted to take away Guantanamo Bay

prisoners’ right to challenge their detentions in United States courts. The

measure, put forward by Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, would override a

Supreme Court decision last year. The New York Times reports the amendment would

nullify legal challenges currently filed by nearly 200 of the 500 detainees

currently held at Guantanamo. Five Democrats joined 44 Republicans to pass the

measure by a vote of 49 to 42. However the New York Times reports the victory

may be short-lived as nine senators were absent, and are pushing for a second

vote as early as Monday.

 

 

" Just as nightfall does not come at once, neither

does oppression. In both instances there is a twilight. And it is in such

twilight

that we all must be aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become

unwilling victims of the darkness. "

William O. Douglas