Appeals Court Stops Release of 17 Detainees in U.S.
The federal appeals court in Washington on Wednesday unanimously overturned a judge’s order that would have freed 17 detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, into the United States, adding a new complication to the Obama administration’s efforts to close the prison there…
…In the ruling, all three judges of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit agreed to reverse Judge Urbina’s decision. But the judges split 2-to-1 in a bitter disagreement about the meaning of the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in June that gave detainees a right to challenge their detention using the centuries-old legal proceeding known as habeas corpus. — NY Times
