A federal judge for the District Court for the District of Columbia ruled on January 23rd that the Department of Defense must give both the court and the ACLU three days’ notice before it seeks to transfer a United States citizen and suspected ISIS fighter into the custody of another nation. The individual that the ACLU is representing is believed to be a dual citizen of the United States and Saudi Arabia and was turned over to American troops after being caught by a Syrian militia last September. He has since been imprisoned in Iraq for more than four months under suspicions of being an enemy combatant with ties to the Islamic State. The individual in question, who has remained unidentified, asked for a lawyer last month after being informed of the Miranda rights and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) offered to meet with him. Although the Trump administration argued that the ACLU had no connection to the man and therefore no right to represent him, the court…
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