Here we go………

By Matt Apuzzo, Associated Press Writer | November 1, 2006

WASHINGTON –Lawyers for dozens of Guantanamo Bay detainees asked a federal appeals court Wednesday to declare a key part of President Bush’s new military trials law unconstitutional.

The detainees’ lawyers challenged the military’s authority to arrest people overseas and detain them indefinitely without allowing them to use the U.S. courts to contest their detention.

Bush gave the military that authority last month when he signed a new law that sets up special commissions to hold trials for foreigners designated as “enemy combatants.” Bush hailed the law as a crucial tool in the war on terrorism and said it would allow prosecution of several high-level terror suspects.

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