Leahy to Seek to Restore Habeas Corpus Rights

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/11/11/181243/88

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by jorndorff  Sat Nov 11, 2006 at 03:12:43 PM PST

(HT to TalkLeft and How Appealing)

From the California Daily Journal:

An effort to restore habeas corpus rights for enemy combatants could be the first test of the Democrats' resolve to change course in the Senate Judiciary Committee.

 

Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, who is expected to become chairman, confirmed Thursday that he is drafting a bill to undo portions of a recently passed law that prevent terrorism detainees from going to federal court to challenge the government's right to hold them indefinitely.

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"It was crazy," [Leahy] said during an interview broadcast Wednesday on National Public Radio. "After 200 years of habeas corpus, we threw it out after just a few hours of debate."

 

He has also voiced concern that the bill allows the White House to determine what kinds of coercive interrogation procedures are off-limits.