SCOTUSBlog has a good summary of the issues involved with Senator Lindsey Graham's (R-SC) efforts to eliminate the statutory right of habeas corpus for alien detainees held by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo.
It's of course not clear if they had this right (though the Supreme Court ruled they do in 2004). But I think the effects of the amendment are bad. Both from a world opinion point of view and by the fact it's saying that the executive branch can do whatever it wants outside of the US. It's codifying loopholes and it's wrong.
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