Chief Justice seeks response on detainee
on Feb 16, 2007 at 4:07 pm
Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., on Friday told the Justice Department he wants a response by 2 p.m. next Tuesday to a plea by a Guantanamo Bay detainee for an order to force the government to provide reasons why he is a prisoner. The call came in the case of Al Sanani v. Bush (application 06A797). An earlier post discussing that case can be found here.
The Chief Justice is considering the application in his capacity as Circuit Justice for the D.C. Circuit. This appears to be the first time since he joined the Court that he has been involved in a war-on-terrorism case; he was out of last Term’s Hamdan v. Rumsfeld decision because he had sat on that case as a member of the D.C. Circuit.
