1.  Define habeas corpus.

2.  The Supreme Court case Boumediene v. Bush, challenges the legality of Lakhdar Boumediene's detention in an offshore U.S. military base as well as the constitutionality of the Military Commissions Act (MCA) of 2006.  Boumediene is a naturalized citizen of Bosnia, currently being held in extrajudicial detention by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay detention camps.
When is the Supreme Court expected to hand down their ruling on the Boumediene case?

3.  How will the decision in the Boumediene case affect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his co-defendants?

4.  How do liberals and conservatives differ on whether captured terrorists have a right to habeas corpus?

5.  a) What is the MCA?
b)  Why was the MCA created?
c)  What rights do defendants have under the MCA?

6.  a) What is the purpose of the law of war (the international law of armed conflict)?
b)  For what reasons does the Bush administration say that federal judges should have no jurisdiction in the cases of enemy combatants?

7.  Why do the ACLU and Amnesty International oppose the MCA?

8.  Which candidate(s) said that if elected president, he/she would do away with military commissions altogether and try terror-war criminals in federal court?

9.  What point does Charles Stimson of the Heritage Foundation make about military commissions?

10. a) Re-read the background on Operation Pastorius in para. 17.  How were the men involved with Operation Pastorius similar to the 9/11 defendants?
b)  When President Franklin Roosevelt was challenged in court as President Bush is being challenged today, how did the Court explain its ruling in favor of President Roosevelt?

11. What do you think: 
a)  Should foreign terrorists be granted the constitutional right to habeas corpus?
b)  What type of trial should they be given? 
Explain your answers. 

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