Supreme Court Wants Bush to Defend Secrecy
The U.S. Supreme Court has ordered the Bush administration to justify its policy of secret immigration-court proceedings in cases related to terrorism, The Washington Post reported. A Florida resident, one of 1,200 Arab and Muslim men rounded up and detained by federal authorities after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, claims that his constitutional rights were violated when the lower courts agreed to keep the existence of his case strictly confidential. The High Court ordered the White House to respond to the man's claim.
This case calls into question whether the Constitution allows lower courts, at the administration's request, to keep secret a person's constitutional challenge to government detention, the Post said. Further, the order suggests that Supreme Court is taking a close look at the government's legal approach to the war on terrorism, the newspaper said.
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