Bush Detention of `Enemy Combatants'Questioned by High Court

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Bush Detention of `Enemy Combatants'Questioned by High Court

April 20 (Bloomberg)

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A lawyer for 14 of the more than 650 prisoners
captured overseas after the Sept. 11, 2001,
terrorist attacks argued that the U.S. can't create
a ``no-law zone'' without court review. Solicitor
General Theodore Olson said the U.S. is ``at
war'' and that non-citizens, held on foreign soil,
aren't entitled to a court hearing.

``It seems rather contrary to the idea of a
Constitution with three branches that the
executive would be able to do whatever it wants
-- whatever it wants -- without a check,'' Justice
Stephen G. Breyer told Olson, the Bush
administration's top courtroom lawyer.

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Justice Antonin Scalia suggested it is the role of Congress, not the courts, to change the law if people
believe the detainees should have a right to go to court.

``If Congress thinks it's unfair, with a stroke of the pen they can change'' the law, Scalia said.

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1. Scalia will live to 130 years of age.

His soul is the entire possession of Satan.

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