Jose Padilla Asks Supreme Court To Reinstate Torture Case

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The Associated Press reports:

A man held for years as an “enemy combatant” is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate a lawsuit accusing former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other government officials of torturing him in a South Carolina military prison.

 

Jose Padilla is appealing a decision by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. That court ruled in January that U.S. Congress, not the court system, has jurisdiction over military detention cases.

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