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Thread #113332 Message #2408024
Posted By: Emma B
07-Aug-08 - 08:06 PM
Thread Name: BS: First Gitmo 'trial'- any reactions?
Subject: RE: BS: First Gitmo 'trial'- any reactions?
Sure did!
In a 43-page opinion in 2008, Circuit Judge Karen Lecraft Henderson found that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, a statute that applies by its terms to all "persons" did not apply to detainees at Guantánamo, effectively ruling that the detainees are not persons at all for purposes of U.S. law.