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Ex parte Milligan [r]: An 1866 decision of the Supreme Court of the United States that determined that a U.S. citizen, not part of the military or a prisoner of war, not in an area of hostilities, and where the civil courts were operating, could not be tried by a military tribunal ^[e]

Extrajudicial detention, U.S. [r]: Situations where the Executive Branch of the United States government has detained individuals without the authority of the judicial branch of government; there have been many cases going back to through the early history of the nation, sometimes during overt war, and, perhaps better known at present, directed against non-national threats. ^[e]
Habeas corpus [r]: In common law, any of several types of writs requiring a person to be brought before a judge or court; esp. one designed to secure a person's release from unlawful detention. ^[e]
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld [r]: A 2006 decision by the Supreme Court of the United States, stating that there was no basis for trying, by U.S. military commission, a person captured in combat with U.S. allies on foreign soil, and turned over to U.S. forces ^[e]
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld [r]: A 2004 opinion by the Supreme Court of the United States, which held that a U.S. citizen, captured in a combat zone and alleged to be bearing arms against the United States, still was entitled to a judicial hearing to determine if he was an enemy combatant subject to military, rather than civilian, law ^[e]

Johnson v. Eisentrager [r]: A 1950 U.S. Supreme Court decision that nonresident enemy aliens, captured in the context of a declared war outside the jurisdiction of any U.S. civil court, were purely under the jurisdiction of military law and had no access to the U.S. judicial system ^[e]
Jose Padilla [r]: An American citizen, convicted in 2007 of conspiring to assist in terrorism in foreign countries, who was originally arrested in 2002 by U.S. law enforcement, transferred by Presidential order to military custody and interrogation, and, as a result of Padilla v. Rumsfeld, sent back to civilian jurisdiction ^[e]
Supreme Court of the United States of America [r]: Add brief definition or description

Sonia Sotomayor [r]: (born June 25, 1954) American jurist, 111th Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States appointed by President Barack Obama in 2009 ^[e]
River Valley High School murder [r]: A planned murder crime happened at River Valley High School in Singapore, in July 2021. ^[e]
Juneteenth [r]: A holiday celebrating the emancipation of enslaved African-Americans, observed mainly in Texas. ^[e]