More than one hundred Guantanamo prisoners are challenging a key component of President Bush’s new military commissions law. Attorneys filed a motion Wednesday arguing the military’s authority to arrest people overseas and prevent them from challenging their detentions in US courts is unconstitutional. Also Wednesday, a bi-partisan group of seven retired federal judges filed a brief arguing the new rules would allow authorities to use evidence obtained by torture. The judges write: “We believe that compelling this court to sanction executive detentions based on evidence that has been condemned in the American legal system since our nation’s founding erodes the vital role of the judiciary in safeguarding the rule of law.”