Course #334- Boumediene V. Bush: Guantanimo Or U.S. Court - 1 Hour MP3

Course# 334: Boumediene V. Bush: Guantanimo Or U.S. Court  Speaker: THE SUPREME COURT Question:   1. Should the Military Commissions Act of 2006 be interpreted to strip federal courts of jurisdiction over habeas petitions filed by foreign citizens detained at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba? 2. If so, is the Military Commissions Act of 2006 a violation of the Suspension Clause of the Constitution? 3. Are the detainees at Guantanamo Bay entitled to the protection of the Fifth Amendment right not to be deprived of liberty without due process of law and of the Geneva Conventions? 4.Can the detainees challenge the adequacy of judicial review provisions of the MCA before they have sought to invoke that review?   Facts of the Case: In 2002 Lakhdar Boumediene and five other Algerian natives were seized by Bosnian police when U.S. intelligence officers suspected their involvement in a plot to attack the U.S. embassy there. The U.S. government classified the men as enemy combatants