Gitmo inmates can146;t challenge cases: US Court

Barring detainees from the US court system was a primary provision in the Military Commissions Act. The ruling is all but certain to be appealed to the US Supreme Court, which last year struck down the Bush administration8217;s original plan for trying detainees before military commissions.

The Act was crafted in response to that decision, and Bush described it as a necessary tool for bringing terror suspects to justice.

Libertarians and Democrats decried the law as unconstitutional and a violation of American values. The law allows government to detain indefinitely foreigners who have been designed as 8220;enemy combatants8221; and authorises the CIA to use aggressive interrogation tactics.