Justin Rood at TPM Muckraker passes along the report from Congressional Quarterly that the abominable "detainee law" will be challenged in court in a matter of "days."
Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights which represents a number of Guantanamo prisoners, is quoted: "I don’t think there’s a snowball’s chance in ‘H’ that this will be found constitutional."
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