The US Supreme Court’s Monday orders added five new cases on a range of topics from the EPA to race discrimination in media, but denied a case filed by a current Guantanamo prisoner.
A Yemeni national, al-Alwi, has been held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for 17 years, since the early days of the war on terror. His current case poses a question left open by former Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s plurality opinion: whether, in the event that this war is unlike the wars that informed it and becomes perpetual, the military would be authorized to hold someone indefinitely as a combatant.
