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am 04.04.2006 von http://www.jurabilis.de
Four votes are necessary for the court to take a case, and Mr. Padillas appeal received only three. The result was to leave standing a decision by the federal appeals court in Richmond, Va., that endorsed the governments power to seize a citizen on United States soil and keep him in open-ended detention.
Nonetheless, the outcome was not the unalloyed victory for the Bush administration that it might have appeared to be.
Three justices who voted not to hear the case Justices Anthony M. Kennedy and John Paul Stevens, along with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. filed an unusual opinion explaining their position. They …
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