By a vote of 4 to 2, the Supreme Court has ruled that the men detained after the September 11 attacks cannot sue U.S. law enforcement officials, writes Mark Sherman for the Associated Press
The vote ends a lawsuit filed against former Attorney General John Ashcroft, former FBI Director Robert Mueller, former immigration chief James Ziglar and other officials filed by a group of men jailed in Brooklyn on suspicion of terrorism shortly after the terrorist attacks of 9/11. All those arrested were in this country illegally.
Three of the Supreme Court’s justices were ineligible to decide the case — Justice Neil Gorsuch because he joined the Supreme Court after the case had been argued, and Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor had both been involved with the lawsuit before they were appointed as Supreme Court justices.
