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Supreme Court decides Hamdi v. Rumsfeld

In Hamdi v. Rumsfeld the Supreme Court held that a U.S. citizen detained as an 'enemy combatant' must be afforded due process to challenge his detention before a neutral decisionmaker.

The ruling affirmed constitutional protections for citizens detained in the war on terror and constrained executive detention authority while allowing limited wartime detention powers.

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