Court to look at detainee release
Posted: October 21, 2009 at 4:31 a.m.
The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to decide whether Guantanamo detainees who are considered no threat can be ordered released in the United States — over the objections of the Obama administration and Congress — if the prisoners have nowhere else to go.
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