Detail for 2006 House Roll Call Vote 508
- Vote Date
- 29-Sep-2006
- Yeas : Nays
- 250 : 170
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American Conservative Union
Military Tribunals.
The House passed a bill authorizing military tribunals to try unlawful enemy combatants in the war on terror, and re-affirming a ban on evidence obtained through torture.Citizens for Global Solutions
S. 3930 Military Commissions Act of 2006 / Treatment of Detainees.
The Military Commissions Act of 2006 amended the Uniform Code of Military Justice to codify and define procedures governing the use and establishment of commissions to try enemy combatants and removed habeas corpus rights from detainees classified as enemy combatants. The Act circumvented the Supreme Court’s decision in Hamdan vs. Rumsfeld which ruled that the military commissions established by the administration to try detainees violated the Geneva Conventions and military law.