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Supreme Court To Rule on Secret Court Proceedings

HeadlineNov 05, 2003

Also yesterday the Supreme Court yesterday ordered Solicitor General Theodore Olson to defend the Bush administration’s post-9/11 policy to conduct secret court proceedings. The Court’s request came in a case involving an Algerian immigrant who was detained in Florida in October 2001. The government attempted to make every part of the man’s case secret including the existence of the case. The man’s name became known only because of a court clerical error.

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