Legal Opinion
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 28, 2004No. 03-6696PublishedCited by 3,141 opinions
1Judgment of the CourtJustice O’Connor
At this difficult time in our Nation’s history, we are called upon to consider the legality of the Government’s 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 petitioner Yaser Hamdi’s 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…
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