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Senate Democrats fail to limit combat time
Senate Democrats fail to limit combat time
Their proposal challenging Bush's war policy falls four votes short of the 60 needed to avoid a Republican filibuster.
By Noam N. Levey
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
September 20, 2007
WASHINGTON -- -- For the eighth time this year, Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked a Democratic move to challenge U.S. policy in Iraq, turning aside a plan to give troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan more rest between deployments.
The vote marked another victory for the Bush administration, which had lobbied hard against the proposal by Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) and continued to command the allegiance of congressional Republicans despite persistent public unhappiness with the war.
Supreme Court Reversed Denying a Petition Decision - 1st time in Sixty Years
US Supreme Court in surprise order sets hearing for Guantánamo prisoners
By John Burton
WSWS
2 July 2007
Last Friday, the Supreme Court reversed itself unexpectedly by granting the petition for review (certiorari) filed in two consolidated cases challenging the provision of last October’s Military Commissions Act that stripped prisoners at Guantánamo Bay of their right to habeas corpus. The case, filed on behalf of 45 prisoners by attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights at the New York University School of Law, is scheduled for argument next fall.
