mo4ch:>Supreme Court justice questions endless detention at GITMO prison | Mo4ch News

After the Supreme Court shot down an appeal from one of the few remaining captives in America’s military prison in Guantanamo Bay, one justice has broken ranks and questioned the ongoing policy of indefinite detention.Though the court on Monday refused to hear an appeal from Moath Hamza Ahmed al-Alwi, a Yemeni man captured by American forces and transferred to the infamous prison in 2002, Justice Stephen Breyer said US detention practices deserved reevaluation.“In my judgment, it is past time to confront the difficult question left open” by previous Supreme Court rulings, Breyer said in a statement, adding the court should soon decide “whether, in light of the duration and other aspects of the relevant conflict... the Constitution permits continued detention.”In his failed appeal, Al-Alwi hoped to challenge the open-ended Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) passed by Congress in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks, which provides an ostensible legal basis for his con…