MILITARY COMMISSIONS ACT

Bills and resolutions

Courts: restore right of habeas corpus for detainees held in the war on terror (see H.R. 64), H30 [6JA]

Dept. of Defense: prohibit detention of enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, provide for de novo combatant status reviews by military judges, and repeal the Military Commissions Act (see H.R. 1315), H2979 [4MR]

———require alien unprivileged enemy belligerents be tried under military commissions (see H.R. 4127), H13352 [19NO]

Remarks in House

Dept. of Defense: reform military commissions under which enemy combatants are tried, H11133, H11138 [8OC]

———require alien unprivileged enemy belligerents be tried under military commissions, H12993, H12994, H12999 [16NO]

Remarks in Senate

Dept. of Defense: clarify preference for trying certain enemy combatants by military commission, S8003-S8005 [23JY], S10386-S10388 [14OC]

———clarify regulations on intelligence personnel reading of Miranda rights to suspected terrorists detained for interrogation, S8000 [23JY], S8086 [24JY]

———reform military commissions under which enemy combatants are tried, S5651-S5653 [20MY], S10416 [14OC]

Supreme Court: decision in Boumediene v. Bush on right of habeas corpus for detainees held in the war on terror, S4624 [23AP]