Even if the court finds jurisdiction, it is highly unlikely that any federal judge would order a detainee's release over military objections.
The military objections committee that is charged with supervising these detentions is a sham.
While commonly taken to refer to pacifist objections to military service, conscientious objection, says Raz, may apply to any law, negative or positive, that a person believes for moral reasons she is compelled to disobey.
AES Wind Generation said it found out in May, after nine years of planning, that the military had objections to its proposal to build a 82.5-megawatt, 33-turbine wind farm.
Over the past two centuries, patriotism has been invoked to make the case for all sorts of things: military sacrifice, conscientious objection, unity, dissent, inclusion, exclusion, anti-Communism, anti-Catholicism, tax cuts, a living wage (not to mention cigars and shopping).
Some Pakistani leaders, especially in the military, have no objection to that as long as they have strong links to the winning faction.
British police officers are to travel to Thailand after the country's military ruler dropped objections to UK help investigating the brutal murders of two young tourists.
But on Wednesday, Nato ambassadors postponed a decision on military planning after objections from Germany, France and other states worried about a slide towards war.
It is also contrary to the spirit of the universally recognized human right of conscientious objection to military service, as found in a series of United Nations Commission on Human Rights resolutions.
American military law recognizes conscientious objection to war in general only and not to specific conflicts, said Eugene Fidell, a founder of the National Institute of Military Justice.
