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Boumediene v. Bush

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Category: History & Society
Date:
June 12, 2008
Location:
United States
Context:
Rasul v. Bush
Key People:
Anthony Kennedy
David Hackett Souter
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Boumediene v. Bush, case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on June 12, 2008, held that the Military Commissions Act (MCA) of 2006, which barred foreign nationals held by the United States as “enemy combatants” from challenging their detentions in U.S. federal courts, was an unconstitutional suspension of the writ of habeas corpus guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution. In 2002 six Algerians were arrested in Bosnia and Herzegovina on suspicion of plotting to attack the U.S. embassy in Sarajevo; designated enemy combatants, they were imprisoned at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp on the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. ...(100 of 424 words)

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