HR 64 IHCommentsClose CommentsPermalink

To amend title 28, United States Code, to repeal the restriction on the jurisdiction of courts, justices, and judges to hear or consider applications for writs of habeas corpus filed by or on behalf of certain aliens detained by the United States.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

January 6, 2009CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the JudiciaryCommentsClose CommentsPermalink

To amend title 28, United States Code, to repeal the restriction on the jurisdiction of courts, justices, and judges to hear or consider applications for writs of habeas corpus filed by or on behalf of certain aliens detained by the United States.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ‘Military Commissions Habeas Corpus Restoration Act of 2009’.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

SEC. 2. REPEAL OF RESTRICTION ON HABEAS CORPUS.

(a) Repeal- Section 2241 of title 28, United States Code, is amended by striking subsection (e).CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(b) Conforming Amendment-CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(1) IN GENERAL- Chapter 99 of title 28, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new section:CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

‘Sec. 1632. Jurisdiction to hear actions against the United States relating to enemy combatants

‘Except as provided in paragraphs (2) and (3) of section 1005(e) of the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 (10 U.S.C. 801 note), no court, justice, or judge shall have jurisdiction to hear or consider any action against the United States or its agents, other than an application for a writ of habeas corpus, relating to any aspect of the detention, transfer, treatment, trial, or conditions of confinement of an alien who is or was detained by the United States and has been determined by the United States to have been properly detained as an enemy combatant or is awaiting such determination.’.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(2) CLERICAL AMENDMENT- The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter is amended by adding at the end the following new item:CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





‘1632. Jurisdiction to hear actions against the United States relating to enemy combatants.’.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(c) Effective Date- The amendments made by this section shall apply to all cases, without exception, pending on or after the date of the enactment of the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 (Public Law 109-148; 119 Stat. 2739) which relate to any aspect of the detention, transfer, treatment, trial, or conditions of detention of an alien detained by the United States since September 11, 2001.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink