Justice Breyer Says It's 'Past Time' To Confront Guantanamo's 'Difficult Questions'
Supreme Court declines to hear appeal from Gitmo detainee but Breyer warns of court consensus unraveling 18 years after 9/11 okayed detentions.
The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal from a Yemeni prisoner held without charge at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba for more than 17 years.
But Justice Stephen Breyer, in a two-page "statement" called attention to the case, declaring that it is "past time" to examine the indefinite detention of prisoners there.
"In my judgment," Breyer wrote, "it is past time to confront the difficult questions" left open.
Underlining the importance
