The Supreme Court declined to review the February decision of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, holding that the federal courts have no jurisdiction over the detention of enemy combatants held at Guantanamo Bay. Stay tuned, though. While voting against taking the case, Justices Stevens and Kennedy more or less declared themselves willing to finagle some form of intervention if their clerks stamp their feet enough.
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Matthew J. Franck is a senior fellow at the Witherspoon Institute, a senior contributing editor of Public Discourse, a lecturer in politics at Princeton University, and professor emeritus of political science at Radford University.
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