Restricting habeas 2

A quick -- and much too late -- update between grading papers and prepping classes: The Senate after all did not pass the original amendment limiting habeas rights but another, compromise, amendment that also restricts habeas corpus rights for GTMO detainies (but not for others, it seems) while giving them one appeal in the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit. Or so it seems: The legislation is fairly complex and the courts will probably have to sort out how it applies in specific cases. And it has not yet been passed by the House + signed by the prez... More information and discussion of this development here and here.