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H.R. 2710

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To repeal and modify certain provisions of law relating to the review of the detention of enemy combatants.
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Committee
Latest Action · July 16, 2007
Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
Congress
110th (2007–2009)
Introduced
June 13, 2007
Cosponsors (0)
None
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Amends federal law concerning the detention of suspected enemy combatants to: (1) repeal a provision that denies any court or judge jurisdiction to consider a writ of habeas corpus filed on behalf of an alien detained by the United States who has been determined to have been properly detained as an enemy combatant or is awaiting such determination; (2) repeal provisions of the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 concerning limitations on the review of decisions of combatant status review tribunals on the propriety of detention of suspected enemy combatants; and (3) revise generally provisions concerning the limited review of military commission procedures and actions.

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