Under the Act, patients lost their right of access to the courts to challenge their detention.
Some Democrats object to a provision that would block detainees from challenging their detention in court.
It affirmed the right of detainees to challenge their detention before an impartial tribunal.
He challenged not only his lengthy detention but also the merits of the case against him.
It has weathered a 2004 Supreme Court decision that allows prisoners to challenge their detention in the federal courts.
At least nine high courts pronounced that even after the declaration of an emergency a person could challenge his detention.
And he would have been able to challenge his detention; a federal judge in New York ruled recently that material witnesses cannot be held indefinitely.
Others should be given the opportunity to challenge their detention - a right Israel says it already grants.
The Supreme Court ruled in 1950 that the German prisoners did not have the right to challenge their detention.
Khan was the first of the fourteen high-value detainees to challenge his detention in court.