What a difference a year makes. A year ago - He was attacking Bush and the position held by the Bush administration on holding enemy combatants and suspected terrorists.
Now, the Obama administration is quite happy the Court left the issue alone.
Nice to know Bush's position has been upheld.
Supreme Court dismisses case of suspected Al Qaeda agent
Justices vacate an appeals court ruling that said the president has the power to imprison people in the U.S. indefinitely without a trial. The White House did not want a showdown over Bush policies.
Associated Press
March 7, 2009
Washington -- The Supreme Court on Friday bowed out of deciding whether the president has the power to imprison people in the U.S. indefinitely without a trial -- avoiding a showdown the Obama administration did not want.The court granted the administration's request to dismiss the challenge to the president's authority from suspected Al Qaeda sleeper agent Ali Saleh Kahlah Marri, who was detained by the military for 5 1/2 years without charges.
But the court's order also vacates the federal appeals court ruling Marri was challenging, which had affirmed the president's power to detain people in the United States without trial.
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