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Re:A.C.L.U. Files Suit Over Phone Surveillance Program by dpatru on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @01:14AM (#5866628)
In Hedges v Obama [1], the trial court blocked the government's power to indefinitely detain. The ruling was immediately appealed and the trial court's decision was stayed. I take it from the government's rush to appeal that there are people are being detained right now that would have had to be released had the ban been upheld.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedges_v._Obama

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Re:A.C.L.U. Files Suit Over Phone Surveillance Program by rayiner on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @09:46AM (#5868004)
The injunction in Hedges blocked the detainment power in its entirety (on the basis of being unconstitutionally vague), not only detainment with respect to American citizens. Obama is fighting to preserve the detainment power, not for the power to detain American citizens, which would be contrary to his signing statement and the expressed intent of Congress.
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