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It's not just the schedule 7 detention power that needs urgent overhaul, but a definition of terrorism that should chill the blood of any democrat".

In the ACLU's view, the law removes the option of bail without also restricting the detention power of judges, some of whom are elected.

Mrs May temporarily renewed the 28-day detention power for six months in June, meaning that ministers will have to decide whether to renew it for a second time by the end of the year.

Senator Mark Udall, Democrat of Colorado, said President Obama has pledged not to use the detention power for Americans, but "this is only binding on his administration, but that won't tie the hands of future administrations".

The filing also revealed that the Obama administration sees the president's detention power as global and not limited to a battlefield in Afghanistan, as some human rights groups have advocated.

He denounced as especially threatening a six-week detention power the government plans to give the police to help combat the growing terrorist threat it says Britain faces from an underground network of Islamist extremists.

The new detention powers drew statements of concern from civil liberties advocates and immigration lawyers.

The measure would grant stepped surveillance and detention powers and crack down on money laundering.

It would permanently embed in law detention powers that a president properly has only in time of war.

He added, in extended remarks, that civil liberties groups had stirred up needless anxiety about the president's detention powers.

As Bingham says, that is why he ruled against the government's anti-terrorism detention powers in the Belmarsh case.