There was an important habeas ruling from the D.C. Court of Appeals yesterday. The Bush administration likes to deflect questions about its policies with rhetoric like “terrorists shouldn’t be clogging our courts with complaints about bad food at Guantanamo.” The legal stakes are actually quite serious and will affect not only aliens imprisoned outside the United States but Americans as well. As the report notes, the legal action will move up to the Supreme Court eventually.
For Cato work related to the writ of habeas corpus, go here and here (pdf).