September 6, 2007 2:41PM # Cato Brief in NYT By [Tim Lynch](https://www.cato.org/people/tim-lynch) --- SHARE One of the big cases the Supreme Court will be hearing in its upcoming term concerns the constitutionality of the Military Commissions Act. That law sought to revoke the jurisdiction of federal courts over habeas corpus lawsuits arising out of the Guantanamo Bay prison facility. The case will not be heard by the High Court until November, but the *New York Times* had an [article](http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/02/washington/02scotus.html?_r=1&oref=slogin) about it over the weekend quoting from the [Cato brief](https://www.cato.org/pubs/legalbriefs/boumediene_vs_bush.pdf) (pdf) that I prepared. I argue that Congress overstepped its authority by trying to withdraw the jurisdiction of federal courts over habeas corpus claims. More background about the case in this *NYT* [article](http://select.nytimes.com/search/restricted/article?res=F30F12F73B540C738FDDAA0894DF404482) (reg r’d). For more about the constitutional record of the Bush administration, read [this](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6330). ##### Related Tags [Defense and Foreign Policy](https://www.cato.org/defense-foreign-policy), [Constitutional Law](https://www.cato.org/constitutional-law), [Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies](https://www.cato.org/robert-levy-center-constitutional-studies) [![Creative Commons License](/build/cato_2020/images/creative-commons.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).