Rescue the Constitution

The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear the combined cases of Al Odah v. U.S. and Boumediene v. Bush this fall. Those named in the case, Fawzi al Odah, a CCR client, and Lakhdar Boumediene, were illegally taken from Pakistan and Bosnia, respectively, and transferred to the Guantanamo detention center. Their combined case represents only the third time the high court will hear a Guantanamo-related issue. The previous two times, the court sided with CCR and the Guantanamo petitioners.

These cases are the first to directly challenge the constitutionality of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 and its stripping of habeas corpus jurisdiction from federal courts. Habeas corpus is the most fundamental right in any democracy—the right to challenge the legality of your detention in a court of law. This right has existed since the Middle Ages to ensure that a monarch or other executive cannot detain whoever he wants indefinitely without due process.

To ensure our rights, we must rescue the constitution now!

1. Habeas Corpus must be restored

2. Justice for Guantanamo Prisoners.