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Should these prisoners be allowed legal proceedings?

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The Bush administration's detention policies have been perhaps the most enduringly controversial aspect of its global war on terrorism.

Now, these Supreme Court rulings are perhaps the most significant legal setback for the administration in the conflict.

Officially, the administration is taking its time to assess the rulings. But they certainly represent a political blow for the administration.

What they mean for the actual fate of the detainees isn't clear. That will depend on how the courts proceed from here.

The Supreme Court's decisions are not a comment on the guilt or innocence of the detainees.

But they're certainly going to open the floodgates for legal appeals. And for that reason their overall legal and political impact may also still have to be judged.

The Supreme Court has basically ruled that suspected terrorists or "enemy combatants", whether American or foreign, should at least have the right to a hearing in a US court, even if they're held at the detention centre at Guantanamo Bay.

The administration had contended is not sovereign US soil, and therefore not within the jurisdiction of US courts.

So what do you think folks, should these people be allowed legal representation or continue being in limbo?

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