Ex-Judges: Detainee Law Unconstitutional - Newsday.com

Ex-Judges: Detainee Law Unconstitutional - Newsday.com: "Ex-Judges: Detainee Law Unconstitutional
By MATT APUZZO
Associated Press Writer

November 2, 2006, 2:39 AM EST

WASHINGTON -- Seven retired federal judges from both political parties have joined dozens of Guantanamo Bay detainees in urging an appeals court to declare key parts of President Bush's new anti-terrorism law unconstitutional.

The judges, in a rare court filing Wednesday, said stripping courts of the right to question how the military handles terrorism suspects 'challenges the integrity of our judicial system' and effectively sanctions the use of torture."