Justice Breyer Says Detainees Can Ask Courts For Help

Breyer delivered the prepared remarks in an address to the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. Among other things, he said: "If 'the government claims that the court lacks jurisdiction to decide a particular matter, the court, not the government, will decide if that is so, with the result in a lower court being subject to appeal,' eventually all the way to the Supreme Court," UPI reports here.