I hope that this isn't duplicated, but I just saw this on the Reuters courtesy of Yahoo! news.
Apparently, the Appellate court has ruled that the military cannot indefinitely detain a "enemy combatant" and has ordered his release.
Of course this will still end up getting to the Supremes -- and we can all start taking bets on which way that's going to go.
I'll add more later -- but wanted to get this news out ASAP.
UPDATED -- to correct for the "non-Gitmo" status
OK -- so I should have known that it was too soon for the Gitmo detainees who had their cases thrown out to have gotten to an appellate court, but it seems to me that this is still an interesting ruling.
Again, the courts (both military and civillian) are rejecting the Bush administration claims about the status of enemy combatants. They are beginning to reassert the need for the "rule of law" in the truest sense (i.e. you cannot call someone a "bad guy" and stick him/her in a hole somewhere and never let them out).
Couple this with Colin Powell's (admittedly WAY late) acknowledgement that Gitmo should be closed now -- and it seems that more of the country is starting to wake up to the abuses of the past 6+ years.
Whether this has any consequences directly for the Gitmo prisoners is unclear, but this ruling helps restore some of the core aspects of the law which had recently been trampled.