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Rumsfeld v. Padilla, 542 U.S. 426 (2004), was a United States Supreme Court case, in which José Padilla, an American citizen, sought habeas corpus relief against Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, as a result of his detention by the military as an "unlawful combatant."
On November 13, 2001 U.S. President George W. Bush issued a military order titled Detention, Treatment, and Trial of Certain Non-Citizens in the War Against Terrorism. [1] The order: Defines which individuals the President considers subject to the order. States that the U.S. Secretary of Defense will be ultimately responsible for the individuals.
Case name Citation Date decided Elk Grove Unified School Dist. v. Newdow: 542 U.S. 1: 2004: Norton v. S. Utah Wilderness Alliance: 542 U.S. 55: 2004: United States v.
Its population dropped significantly in 2020 after an outbreak of COVID-19 led the ACLU Foundation of Southern California to sue and a federal judge to order the release of detainees and the pause ...
This article may be too long to read and navigate comfortably. Consider splitting content into sub-articles, condensing it, or adding subheadings. Please discuss this issue on the article's talk page. (October 2024) Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election Part of First presidency of Donald Trump, transition of Joe Biden, democratic backsliding in the United States The ...
The Office for the Administrative Review of the Detention of Enemy Combatants, established in 2004 by the Bush administration's Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, [1] is a United States military body responsible for organising Combatant Status Review Tribunals (CSRT) for captives held in extrajudicial detention at the Guantanamo Bay detention camps in Cuba and annual Administrative ...
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, 542 U.S. 507 (2004), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court recognized the power of the U.S. government to detain enemy combatants, including U.S. citizens, but ruled that detainees who are U.S. citizens must have the rights of due process, and the ability to challenge their enemy combatant status before an impartial authority.
This is a list of detention facilities holding illegal immigrants in the United States.The United States maintains the largest illegal immigrant detention camp infrastructure in the world, which by the end of the fiscal year 2007 included 961 sites either directly owned by or contracted with the federal government, according to the Freedom of Information Act Office of the U.S. Immigration and ...