Leslie Fram's 7:30 News Pile lead with a federal judge's ruling that Guantanmo detainees have the constitutional right to pursue lawsuits challenging their imprisonment. Judge Joyce Hens Green said in her 75 page opinion:
Although this nation unquestionably must take strong action under the leadership of the commander in chief to protect itself against enormous and unprecedented threats, that necessity cannot negate the existence of the most basic fundamental rights for which the people of this country have fought and died for well over two hundred years.
Toucher argued the Bush administration line: extending rights to these prisoners put our "military at a disadvantage". In response to Jimmy Baron's explanation Judge Green's decision, Toucher incorrectly stated that the decision was "more [about] the conditions they're in than the charges they're up up on." Essentially, Mr. Baron was correct. Judge Green's decision was based on the fact that permanently designating prisoners as enemy combatants violated the constitutional requirement for due process.
