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COMMENTS: Coequal Branch
As the Supreme Court ends its session, both ABC and CBS picked up on the Justices' decision to scrutinize the detention without trial of terrorist suspects at the naval base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. CBS' Wyatt Andrews called it "a stunning about-face." He noted that the White House had asked for "latitude" in its treatment of the detainees and Congress had passed a law stripping the Supreme Court of jurisdiction over them. "Both other branches of government have told the Court to lay off" yet the "Supreme Court said: 'No!'" ABC's Jan Crawford Greenburg (no link) suggested that a legal finding last week that the military commissions are "a sham" may have convinced the Court to reverse its April refusal to take the case.
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