Lawyers working on behalf of nearly 600 foreign detainees at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, urge the Supreme Court to find that they have a right to some kind of legal proceedings, so they can challenge the government's decisions declaring the detainees enemy combatants.
- A ruling in their favor would give the detainees some legal process, though it could be a hearing before some kind of U.S. military panel rather than access to federal courts inside the United States.
- A ruling against them would allow the government to continue their indefinite detention and perhaps permit the administration to hold more detainees from overseas as enemy combatants without further legal process.
