The senator repeatedly compared himself to Mr. Cuomo and praised his handling of a 2007 civil confinement law that Mr. Schneiderman voted against, under which sex offenders can be confined even after serving their prison sentences.
But he said the civil confinement law passed constitutional muster.
Winston Churchill, on seeing John Galsworthy's Justice in 1910, used his power as home secretary to change the law on solitary confinement.
That decision, a robust interpretation of Congress's authority to pass legislation it deems "necessary and proper," upheld a federal law imposing extended confinement on dangerous sexual predators who have completed their criminal sentences.
Though state law required solitary confinement at night, the statute was impossible to administer due to the space constraints.
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First, US law prohibits the confinement of members of the armed forces in "immediate association" with foreign nationals.
State civil confinement laws are not at issue in the case.
In June, Mr. Williams's lawyer, Daniel Grasso, argued that Mr. Williams should not be subject to the three-year-old civil-confinement law because it was passed long after he pleaded guilty, in 1998, to statutory rape and reckless endangerment.
Prosecutors can use the state's civil-confinement law — intended to keep the most dangerous sex offenders out of communities after prison — to try to detain the offender, Nushawn Williams, indefinitely, Justice John Michalski of State Supreme Court said.
Her case is of special concern to Britain because Ghavami is a British-Iranian, but Iran does not recognise dual nationality and the country's judiciary is treating her as it would any Iranian citizen who opposes its laws: with harsh confinement and no due process.
