In a case involving detainees at the U$.$S$.$ military base at Guant$$namo Bay, the U$.$S$.$ Supreme Court ruled in a $5-3$ decision that the Bush administration did not have the authority it claimed to have and that the military tribunals established to hear these cases were not legal under the Uniform Code of Military Justice or the Geneva Convention.

Hamdan v$.$ Rumsfeld

Rumsfeld v$.$ Padilla

Holder v$.$ Humanitarian Law Project

Riley v$.$ California