The Supreme Court Guantanamo Ruling: How the Administration Should Respond

Publication Date: June 2006

Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)

Author(s): James Jay Carafano; Nile Gardiner; Todd Gaziano

Research Area: Law and ethics

Keywords: National security; war

Type: Brief

Coverage: Cuba

Abstract:

Last week, the Supreme Court issued a split decision declaring unlawful the military commissions the United States planned to use at Guantanamo Bay. Regardless of the decision's legal merits, it is not a rebuke of the Bush Administration's conduct of the battle against the threat of transnational terrorist groups.