By MARK SHERMAN
The Supreme Court debated the rights of foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay on Wednesday for the third time since 2004, a legal struggle that could still be around when a new president takes office in 13 months.
Most questions from the justices seemed to accept that the 305 men held at the U.S. naval base in Cuba, many for nearly six years, have some rights to challenge their detention.
Instead, the key question that emerged Wednesday was whether the limited court review created by the Bush administration and Congress in response to earlier Supreme Court rulings for the detainees is good enough.
resolution of this matter, expected in a decision in the spring, could determine whether the detainees receive prompt hearings that might result in freedom for some or face many more months, even years, of legal proceedings and imprisonment
a detainee who, after six years in jail, may want to argue that the Constitution says he must be charged or released.
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