[news] Court upholds power of White House to jail citizens as " enemy combatants"

[Resist!ca]

By John Andrews | 13 September 2005 |  World Socialist Web Site In a ruling with vast implications for basic democratic rights, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled Friday that the Bush administration can continue to incarcerate Jose Padilla, seized May 8, 2002 at Chicago's O'Hare airport, in a military prison, without filing any charges against him. The ruling attacks the right to be free from arbitrary imprisonment, the fundamental liberty dating back in Anglo-American law to the Magna Carta of 1215, as well as basic notions of due process. It demonstrates the extent to which the American ruling elite has broken with democratic standards and traditions.

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