Court ruling a huge blow to Bush

THE US Supreme Court has ruled detainees held in the US military base at Guantanamo Bay have the right to appeal to federal courts in a fresh blow to the Bush administration.

The court ruled detainees in the US jail in southern Cuba “have the constitutional privilege of habeas corpus,” in the third ruling on Guantanamo against the current administration.

By a vote of five to four, the court found that, even if the base was officially on Cuban territory, it was in fact operating as if it were on American soil and therefore the detainees have the same constitutional rights as all people living in the US.