Breyer: Detainees can ask courts for help  April 14, 2003 at
7:00 PM   |   0 comments  WASHINGTON, April 14 (UPI) -- U.S.
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer said Monday that the
courts, not the government, will decide whether judges have
jurisdiction over detainees held in terror investigations.  The
Bush administration has told the federal courts, with varying
success, that judges have no jurisdiction over "enemy
combatants" or detainees held at the U.S. naval base in
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.  None of the detainee cases has reached
the Supreme Court.  Breyer's comments came in prepared remarks
for a speech Monday before the Association of the Bar of the
City of New York. Breyer is the Supreme Court's most junior
member, but a leader of its liberal wing.  The justice said the
detainees came in three categories: "The approximately 600
individuals from 42 different countries who fought against
allied forces in Afghanistan and are presently detained at
Guantanamo Bay ... two American citizens, accused of crimes r