[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6615 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6615

   To provide for the transport of the enemy combatants detained in 
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to Washington, DC, where the United States Supreme 
  Court will be able to more effectively micromanage the detainees by 
   holding them on the Supreme Court grounds, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 24, 2008

 Mr. Gohmert introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
 Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on the 
 Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, 
 in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the 
                jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
   To provide for the transport of the enemy combatants detained in 
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to Washington, DC, where the United States Supreme 
  Court will be able to more effectively micromanage the detainees by 
   holding them on the Supreme Court grounds, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Giving Inmate Terrorists More 
Opportunities (GITMO) Act of 2008''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds the following:
            (1) The United States Supreme Court issued an opinion 
        styled Boumediene v. Bush on June 12, 2008.
            (2) Justice Anthony Kennedy, in the court's majority 
        opinion, held that foreign terrorism suspects held at the 
        Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba have constitutional rights to 
        challenge their detention in United States courts.
            (3) This is an obvious effort on the part of the Supreme 
        Court to micromanage the detainment and disposition of 
        detainees in the War on Terror who are dedicated to destroying 
        innocent people and the American way of life.
            (4) The United States Supreme Court clearly needs increased 
        opportunity to oversee the handling of the enemy combatants, as 
        it has seen fit to take a greater role in managing the Global 
        War on Terror, which is a duty previously exercised by the 
        Executive Branch.
            (5) There can be no better way for the United States 
        Supreme Court to exercise its new self-appointed war powers 
        than to house the prisoners whom it has taken a greater role in 
        overseeing.

SEC. 3. TRANSPORTATION AND DETAINMENT OF ENEMY COMBATANTS.

    (a) Transportation.--The Secretary of Defense shall immediately 
transport all enemy combatants detained in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to 
Washington, DC, where the United States Supreme Court shall hold the 
prisoners on the Court grounds, confined by adequate fencing.
    (b) Shelter on Supreme Court Building Grounds.--The Secretary of 
Defense, in conjunction with Justice Anthony Kennedy, the author of the 
majority opinion in Boumediene v. Bush, is directed to provide shelter 
for the detainees outside the United States Supreme Court building, but 
on the building grounds. The Secretary of Defense shall provide guards 
to watch over the prisoners and shall implement a system to ensure that 
the prisoners receive the appropriate amount of food and water. Should 
the detainees need the use of restroom facilities, they shall use the 
facilities inside the United States Supreme Court building. The Chief 
Justice, if the Chief Justice so chooses, may perform the duties of 
Justice Anthony Kennedy under this subsection.
    (c) Guard Duty.--If any of the nine Supreme Court justices desire 
at any time to stand guard over the prisoners, or to provide the 
prisoners with their meals or water, or both, then the justices shall 
be permitted to perform these functions whenever they want.

SEC. 4. ENFORCEMENT.

    If either the Secretary of Defense or any justice of the Supreme 
Court refuses to carry out their duties under this Act, then their 
respective department or court shall receive funding for the next 
fiscal year at half the level of funding appropriated for the current 
fiscal year, or until such time as the Supreme Court no longer desires 
to micromanage the prisoners who have sworn to destroy our way of life.
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