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Originally Posted by Mojo_PeiPei
....You catch that Host, the Supreme Court upheld a lower courts opinion that the AUMF from 9-19-2001 gave the President authority!
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As to the claim that the AUMF gave the president authority to deny the most basic rights to detainees, here is what Stevens said in the majority opinion...:
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As to the statutory authorization, there is nothing in the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) "even hinting" at expanding the President's war powers beyond those enumerated in Art. 21. Instead, the AUMF, the UCMJ, and the DTA "at most acknowledge" the President's authority to convene military commissions only where justified by the exigencies of war, but still operating within the laws of war.
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...as part of the decision to strike down parts of the Detainees Treatment act because its
military commissions did not provide detainees the rights comparable to UCMJ or Genenva Conventions.