(OT) SPECIAL: for Ace and other ditto heads
Telamon wrote:
In article ,
"Dave Holford" wrote:
All US military bases are US soil, just as are all US embassies. As such,
the US Supreme Court and lower Federal courts have jurisdiction over
anyone being detained on any US military base.
There is no presiding US court judge at any US military base in a foreign
country, but all JAG court decisions are appealable and addressable to US
Federal courts, including the Supreme Court.
I always wondered why the US airbases in the UK were called RAF Stations,
not USAF Bases - now I know why.
Thanks for the info.
That's right. Foreign US military bases are not US soil. Usually they
are some kind of lease agreement where they US has use of the land for
some period of time but the country they are in is not giving up all
rights to the land during the lease. US law does not recognize these
agreements as "US soil" to my knowledge.
Then John McCain is a furriner.
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