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For Immediate Release
June 12, 2008 |
Contact: Jonathan Godfrey
Melanie Roussell
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Washington, DC)- Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) released the following statement in response to the United States Supreme Court's decision reaffirming habeas corpus at Guantanamo Bay:
The Supreme Court has affirmed what we've known to be true for some time: that detainees at Guantanamo Bay have a right to challenge their imprisonment in a court. It is simply not the American way to deny that right and now as the Supreme Court has ruled, it is unconstitutional. The Court was rightly outraged that some of the parties in this case had been held for six years without being given the right to challenge their detention before an impartial court. I applaud today's decision and look forward to the scales of justice being returned to their proper balance.
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