Rasul v. Bush

For my case study essay I wrote about the Rasul v. Bush case of 2004. In this case the Supreme Court reviewed the appeal of 4 inmates at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, on the outskirts of Cuba. These 4 inmates led by Shafiq Rasul, petitioned that they should have the right to usher their writ of Habeas Corpus. This may seem odd, however while at Guantanamo they were not given any information as to what the outside world knew about them, so they did not know if their families knew where they were, if anyone was trying to help them, nothing. These inmates felt their rights had been violated because they were not given a fair trial or anything, so they filed a court case for their Habeas Corpus rights, this led to the Supreme Court ruling in favor of Shafiq Rasul et al. 6-3. This meant that the Bush administration would have to grant the inmates a trial for their detention, and that everything that happened to them while serving their detention would be put on trial as well. This was ground breaking because it led way to several other cases very similar to this one. The S.C ruled that the since the US had taken these prisoners, and technically they were under the rule of a US owned territory they were granted the same rights as a US citizen would have. I felt this case was interesting because we got to take a slight look into some of the shady things the Bush administration had done after the events of 9/11.