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Trump Administration Uses Catch-22 to Bar U.S. Citizen Held by Military From Lawyers

PARADOXICAL

The ACLU can’t challenge his detention because it is not representing him, the Justice Department says—but he isn’t allowed to meet any lawyers in the first place.

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