Jim Tumbls.

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WSJ: “The Supreme Court ruled that foreign prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay may challenge their detention before a federal judge, opening the door to the first-ever independent review of the reasons hundreds of men have been held at the offshore naval base for as long as six years…

Several justices, looking at the length of detentions and what they suggested was the administration’s failure to follow the spirit of their prior rulings, expressed exasperation at the executive. Justice David Souter, in a concurring opinion that two other justices joined, described the ruling as ‘an act of perseverance in trying to make habeas review … mean something.’” (See the text of the full opinion.)