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- Title: Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
- Author : Supreme Court of the United States
- Release Date : January 28, 2004
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 130 KB
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At this difficult time in our Nations history, we are called upon to consider the legality of the Governments detention of a United States citizen on United States soil as an "enemy combatant" and to address the process that is constitutionally owed to one who seeks to challenge his classification as such. The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit held that petitioners detention was legally authorized and that he was entitled to no further opportunity to challenge his enemy-combatant label. We now vacate and remand. We hold that although Congress authorized the detention of combatants in the narrow circumstances alleged here, due process demands that a citizen held in the United States as an enemy combatant be given a meaningful opportunity to contest the factual basis for that detention before a neutral decisionmaker.