Zach Scruggs Sentenced to 14 Months
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Associated Press
Published: Tue, March 25, 2008 - 3:42 am
Last Updated: Tue, March 25, 2008 - 3:44 am
Last Updated: Tue, March 25, 2008 - 3:44 am
a case that tests Executive Branch authority and the right of
certain detainees to get access to U.S. Courts.
Two Americans who are being held by the military in Iraq want
U.S. courts to keep them from being transferred to Iraqi custody.
The Bush administration says U.S. courts are powerless to
intervene because the men are being held by international forces,
not the U.S. military.
The Associated Press filed a brief in the case, asking the court
to reject the administration's arguments. The AP has been fighting
the detention of photographer Bilal Hussein for two years without
charges.
In a second case today, Attorney General Michael Mukasey will
argue that the court should reinstate the conviction of would-be
millennium bomber Ahmed Ressam on an explosives charge that an
appeals court threw out.
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