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Habeus Corpus
You might want to read this: The White House Warden
Emphasis added, because I think it's necessary. And it gets worse from there. Once this bill is signed - and it will be, very soon - we will no longer be free.
The Supreme Court may overturn some or even all of it, but I wouldn't count on it.
BURIED IN THE complex Senate compromise on detainee treatment is a real shocker, reaching far beyond the legal struggles about foreign terrorist suspects in the Guantanamo Bay fortress. The compromise legislation, which is racing toward the White House, authorizes the president to seize American citizens as enemy combatants, even if they have never left the United States. And once thrown into military prison, they cannot expect a trial by their peers or any other of the normal protections of the Bill of Rights.
Emphasis added, because I think it's necessary. And it gets worse from there. Once this bill is signed - and it will be, very soon - we will no longer be free.
The Supreme Court may overturn some or even all of it, but I wouldn't count on it.