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It told Judge Bates that the president could detain without trial only people who were part of Al Qaeda or its affiliates, or their "substantial" supporters.
For example, in 2013 the court rejected a government policy enabling the state to detain without trial illegal immigrants for three years.
Although the constitution guaranteed a number of rights, such as the freedoms of speech, assembly, and worship, it also allowed the president to detain without trial persons who have been deemed a threat to public security.
He notably voted against the National Defense Authorization Act of 2014, which allowed the government to detain without trial anyone including U.S. citizens suspected of fighting with al-Qaeda and other forces hostile to the United States.
Barack Obama has abandoned a commitment to veto a new security law that allows the military to indefinitely detain without trial American terrorism suspects arrested on US soil who could then be shipped to Guantánamo Bay.
Mr Clarke said the law lords had ruled that section four of the act - which gave the home secretary power to detain without trial foreign nationals who could not be deported - breached sections of the European convention on human rights.
