Who can challenge the Detainee Treatment Act in court?

[MrCoffee]

I cannot for the life of me come up with a potential plaintiff with standing to sue. Not a one. And I'm a lawyer, for crying out loud.

[w4rma]

1. Wasn't that the goal of the way it was written?

They wrote it in such a way that it would keep it's victims as far away from the judicial branch (and the press) as they could.

[MrCoffee]

2. Yes, but there are many posters that seem to think SCOTUS

will overturn it tomorrow. I can't figure out how it will EVER get in front of a district judge, much less the Supremes.

[bowens43]

3. Anyone of those already in the federal court process.

There are several.

[sandnsea]

5. They're saying the laws apply to those cases

That it's retro-active. Levin was making a fuss about that last week when this came up over the McCain bill. Levin said he never meant to take all these cases out of court, but Gonzales (or some Bushy) is trying to throw everything out of court. And that's based on the McCain bill from last year, not this one. The only ones left in any court would be those facing ten year sentences or on murder charges.

[sandnsea]

4. A whistleblower??

Correct? That's all I could come up with, a whistleblower making a criminal charge to a prosecutor. That's the most disturbing part of the whole bill to me.