Detention and the war on terrorism: how far can the government go?

In 2004 America's "war upon terrorism" clashed with the U Constitution as the federal rule sought to detain suspected terrorists and gainsay them access to both attorneys and the courts. In three historic cases, the U highest Court examined whether the federal conduct can hold alien detainees, as well as American citizens captured the two abroad and in the United States, without providing them access to an attorney or the courts.

In the first case, Rasul v Bush, the parents of sum of two units alien detainees at the U military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, argued that denial of the