Civil Court Judge Saliann Scarpulla didn't immediately rule after a hearing Wednesday, telling rights groups she shared their "sensibility" but wasn't sure the law was on their side. To be continued...
On the same day President Barack Obama formally launched his re-election campaign, his attorney general, Eric Holder, announced that key suspects in the 9/11 attacks would be tried not in federal court, but through controversial military commissions at Guantanamo. Holder blamed members of Congress, who he said "have intervened and imposed restrictions blocking the administration from bringing any Guantanamo detainees to trial in the United States."Â
