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Federal Judge Strikes Down NDAA Detention Powers - International Business Times
Of note: Quote:
The Obama administration had asked Forrest to reconsider her ruling, saying that the plaintiffs had no standing to challenge the law and that it was “extraordinary” for her to have restrained future military operations that might be ordered by the commander in chief during wartime.
As part of that request, the government said in a footnote it was interpreting her injunction narrowly as applying only to the handful of people specifically named as plaintiffs, including Chris Hedges, a journalist who interacts with suspected terrorists as part of his reporting work, and several prominent supporters of WikiLeaks.
But Wednesday, Forrest said that her order still stood — and that, contrary to the government’s narrow interpretation of it, her injunction applied broadly and not just to the named plaintiffs.
| Wow. They are fighting for indefinite detention right to the bitter end. |
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