Thursday, January 19, 2017

C10-1 9/11 Muslims challenging Supreme Court

In responce to studying the supreme court I picked this article as its about a case where Muslims have gone to the supreme court claiming religious discrimination after they were detained following 9/11. Many of the muslims out of the 750 rounded up did not have immigration papers and were held for around 1 day in a cell where they claim to be mentally and physically abused. And after were held in detention for 3-8 months. The lawyers for the Muslims are saying that they understand why they picked up the muslims at first as they thought they could be connected, but say that 8 months is ridiculous. The Justice department says that some were connected to terrorism, some had been, and others werent at all and the government was in a difficult situation following the huge attack. The main case is that the government is being called out for religious discrimination but as mentioned earlier the reason was terrorism. Personally i believe the court will rule in favor of the government, especially since the government had a reasonable caused and  will be backed by much more interest groups.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/01/supreme-court-hears-case-muslims-detained-911-170119050505116.html

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