How do you think the U.S. Supreme Court will decide if it has power to continue to hear detainee petitions that they are being held illegally, despite the Military Commissions Act that deprives the high Court of the power to hear those claims?
What harm, if any, to the United States' interests can come by giving those suspected of aiding al Qaeda or the Taliban the full rights and protections that American citizens (or even illegal immigrants on American soil) enjoy.
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER: Answers may vary: many students believe terror suspects are not really people and the American detention in Cuba may as well be on another planet. Students are asked to confront in this question whether or not they believe in the concept of liberty and constitutional protections for all caught in the American criminal justice system, whether or not they believe in the concept of presumed innocent until proven guilty and whether or not they think any terror suspect is in a different class of offender for whom the law should not be applied equally as to American citizens.
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