In the history of legal challenges to the Bush administration's assertion that it can hold "War on Terror" prisoners indefinitely without charge or trial, Parhat v. Gates has just joined a trio of Supreme Court verdicts -- Rasul v. Bush (2004), Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (2006) and Boumediene v. Bush (two weeks ago) -- as significant challenges to executive overreach.
In a one-page ruling in the case of Huzaifa Parhat, a Uighur (a Muslim from the oppressed Xinjiang province of...
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