Last week a federal judge ruled that government detention of people they deem “material witnesses” does not violate the Constitution, and that the reasoning another judge used to reach the opposite conclusion was “flawed.” Dozens of immigrants, mostly Muslim men, were arrested and detained after September 11th because the government believed they could provide information for the investigation.
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