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· 5/23/2023

JORDON M. NORTON v. State of Indiana

How courts have described this case

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  • finding it “ ‘well established that certain constitutional protections available to persons inside the United States are unavailable to aliens outside our geographic borders.’ ”
  • finding it \`well established that certain constitutional protections available to persons inside the United States are unavailable to aliens outside our geographic borders.'\
  • implying Guantanamo detainees do not have First Amendment rights even though \[t]he First Amendment's guarantees of freedom of speech and free exercise of religion do not mention individuals\
  • \The text of the lease and decisions of circuit courts and the Supreme Court all make clear that Cuba—not the United States—has sovereignty over Guantanamo Bay.\
  • “[T]he dissent offers the distinction that the Suspension Clause is a limitation on congressional power rather than a constitutional right. But this is no distinction at all.”
  • “Testimony procured by coercion is notoriously unreliable and unspeakably inhumane.”

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