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Couldn't he just have released the detainees? There wasn't any legal basis for keeping them there, as far as I understand, and if there was, he can pardon.
by mcv 5y ago
Couldn't he just have released the detainees? There wasn't any legal basis for keeping them there, as far as I understand, and if there was, he can pardon.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> Couldn't he just have released the detainees? Well, for the most part foreign countries weren't willing to take them and bringing them into the US (whether for release or prosecution or detention) was prohibited (whether for release, imprisonment, or trial) was prohibited by Congress, so, no.