davema88
Davema88
davema88

Not to mention that when the Congress passed the AUMF, the goal was to basically allow them to detain enemy combatants for the duration of a war or conflict under military law which Congress and SCOTUS agreed were well within their rights. The issue was whether it applied to US citizens; it did not. You say it was an

Actually, “enemy combatant” is a term coined by SCOTUS in Ex Parte Quirin not by Bush. Bush brought the term back into the American people’s vocabulary but he didn’t coin the term, but why let facts get in the way?