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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that federal prisoners are barred from petitioning federal courts to get their sentences overturned after new case law makes them retroactively innocent, dealing the latest blow to a legal process known as habeas corpus.
The Supreme Court was wrong to deny relief to a man imprisoned for activity that Court's own rulings indicate was not illegal - one who never had an opportunity to challenge his incarceration on that basis.
The conduct of war in the modern era has been a complicated matter. But in the 21st century, at a time when the United States is engaged in the longest war in its history, unprecedented changes have been introduced that involve major increases in that complexity. A new regimen of legal and judicial restrictions has been imposed on the military forces that are engaged in combat operations necessary for the national defense. This has raised a host of questions and practical problems that affect all three branches of the federal government.
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Judge Alice Batchelder examines several key areas and concludes that Brutus, regrettably, was right and Story was wrong