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December 18, 2003
Court: Bush Can't Detain 'Dirty Bomb' Suspect
Court: Bush Can't Detain 'Dirty Bomb' Suspect
WASHINGTON — In a rebuke to the Bush administration, a federal appeals court in New York ruled today that the president had no authority to arrest an American citizen on U.S. soil and jail him in a military brig as an "enemy combatant."
In a 2-1 decision, the court gave the government 30 days to release Jose Padilla, a Bronx-born Muslim who allegedly conspired with Al Queada operatives to detonate a "dirty bomb" in the United States.
The judges did not say Padilla must go free. Instead, they say the government must charge him with a crime if it wants to hold him.
Posted by glyphic at December 18, 2003 01:05 PM