Court Rules in Favor of Guantanamo Detainees

Court Rules in Favor of Guantanamo Detainees The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that detainees at Guantanamo Bay do have the right to challenge their status in American courts. Cully Stimson, from the Heritage Foundation, and Shane Kadidal from the Center for Constitutional Rights, discuss what the court's decision could mean for the detainees and how it may change the way American prosecutes terrorists. Mr. STIMSON: Well, I think it's dead, and it now moves to the federal district court, probably here in Washington, although that's not for sure, where detainees and their lawyers will challenge the administration's detention decision and the administration will I think, very quickly, have to pull together the evidence they believe, justifies the determination of their unlawful enemy combatants, and then the judge will have to craft a set of rules in an administration hearing and have a hearing for each detainee and then decide whether or not to release him or allow him to be helped. Mr. KADIDAL: Well, you know, we've waited six and half years for a day in federal court when we could actually get in front of an impartial judge and argue that, you know, either in the law of the facts in our client's individual cases that they didn't belong in detention. We're talking about the Supreme Court's ruling on Guantanamo Bay detainees with Shane Kadidal of the Center for Constitutional Rights and with Cully Stimson of the Heritage Foundation.