This morning the Supreme Court agreed to hear the Guantanamo detainee case. The legal arguments in the case will likely focus on whether U.S. courts have jurisdiction over foreign nationals and others captured abroad and detained in Guantanamo. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit held that federal courts lacked such jurisdiction.
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Jonathan H. Adler is a professor at William & Mary Law School.
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