repealing habeas corpus

In 2005, the US Senate, in effect, voted to abolish habeas corpus when it passed an amendment that overturned a Supreme Court ruling allowing Guantanamo Bay prisoners access to a federal court. On October 17, President Bush signed a bill that legalised torture and kidnapping and all but confirmed the repeal of habeas corpus and the Bill of Rights. The CIA can now legally abduct people and 'render' them to secret prisons in countries where they are likely to be tortured. Evidence extracted under torture is now permissible in 'military commissions'; people can be sentenced to death based on testimony beaten out of witnesses, and on hearsay. You are now guilty until confirmed guilty.