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Peter Weiss is President of the Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy and a vice-president of the Center for Constitutional Rights
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Boumediene v. Bush: Guantánamo and justice
The Supreme Court of the United States ruled by a 5-4 majority on 12 June 2008 in favour of a case brought on behalf of detainees held at Guantánamo, whose effect is to declare that those incarcerated in the military prison-camp there have full rights of habeas corpus under the US constitution. During his visit to Rome on 12 June as part of his week-long European tour, President Bush added to the list of his gaffes by informing a local journalist that he was not particularly upset about the decision because, after all, the two lower courts that had dealt with the Boumediene v. Bush case had agreed with him. Since his return to the White House, the president's response has become more vehement if no more comprehending.
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