<P> The Supreme Court ruled in Boumediene v. Bush that the MCA amounts to an unconstitutional encroachment on habeas corpus rights, and established jurisdiction for federal courts to hear petitions for habeas corpus from Guantanamo detainees tried under the Act . Under the MCA, the law restricted habeas appeals for only those aliens detained as enemy combatants, or awaiting such determination . Left unchanged was the provision that, after such determination is made, it is subject to appeal in federal courts, including a review of whether the evidence warrants the determination . If the status was upheld, then their imprisonment was deemed lawful; if not, then the government could change the prisoner's status to something else, at which point the habeas restrictions no longer applied . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Wikinews has related news: President Bush signed into law the Military Commissions Act of 2006 </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Wikinews has related news: President Bush signed into law the Military Commissions Act of 2006 </Td> </Tr> <P> There is, however, no legal time limit which would force the government to provide a Combatant Status Review Tribunal hearing . Prisoners were, but are no longer, legally prohibited from petitioning any court for any reason before a CSRT hearing takes place . </P>

Who has the power to suspend habeas corpus