CAIR WELCOMES SUPREME COURT GITMO RULING
Muslim group calls decision 'victory for objective justice,' calls for prison to be closed

(WASHINGTON, D.C., 6/12/08) - A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group today welcomed a Supreme Court ruling that gives detainees at the military prison in Guantanamo Bay the right to challenge their detentions in U.S. civilian courts.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) called the decision a "victory for objective justice," noting that the court's decision maintains the integrity of the Constitution in overturning hastily-passed congressional legislation that provided inadequate legal recourse to detainees. Of the 5-4 decision, Justice Anthony Kennedy said, "The laws and Constitution are designed to survive, and remain in force, in extraordinary times."

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Supporting constitutional principles of checks and balances, the majority opinion on Boumediene v. Bush stated: "Abstaining from questions involving formal sovereignty and territorial governance is one thing. To hold the political branches have the power to switch the Constitution on or off at will is quite another."

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