Aamer v. Obama

OPINION

ROSEMARY M. COLLYER, United States District Judge

In the six years since the Supreme Court restored the federal courts’ statutory habeas corpus jurisdiction over detainees at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the Judiciary has worked to map the contours of the Great Writ in these exceptional circumstances. In 2013, the D.C. Circuit decided that a military regulation providing for repatriation of de*17tained medical personnel is domestic law applicable to Guantanamo detainees and that the regulation imports certain aspects of the Geneva Conventions into these unique habeas…