Oh gee…..wonder how they’ll rule.

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Friday to review whether Guantanamo Bay detainees may go to court to challenge their indefinite confinement.

The action was announced without comment along with other end-of-term orders.

Last week, lawyers for the detainees filed a statement from a military lawyer in which he described the inadequacy of the process the administration has put forward as an alternative to a full review by civilian courts.

In February, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia upheld a Bush administration law that stripped federal courts of their ability to hear the detainees’ challenges to their confinement.

On April 2, the Supreme Court denied the detainees’ request to review the February decision. The detainees then petitioned the court to reconsider its position.

Dismissing the petitions would be “a profound deprivation” of the prisoners’ right to speedy court review, lawyers for the detainees said.

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