"The U.S. Supreme Court ducked its duty Monday. It declined to review a notorious case testing President George W. Bush?s sweeping claim to have the power to seize American citizens on American soil and toss them into indefinite detention out-side the normal legal process simply by declaring them to be ?enemy coinbatants.” The justices were asked to rule on the case of Jose Padilla, an American citizen who was held for more than three years at a Navy brig in Charleston, South Carolina, supposedly on suspicion of being part of a plot by Al Qaeda to explode a radioactive ?dirty bomb” in the United States..."