**The US Supreme Court has said it will consider the case of Guantanamo Bay detainees who remain in custody even though they are not thought a threat.**A number of Chinese Muslims Uighurs are still being held despite no longer being classified as “enemy combatants”.
The court will decide whether federal judges have the right to order their release into the US when no other country can be found to take them.
An appeals court ruled in February that federal judges did not have that power.
Its move to overturn a federal judge’s ruling followed a 5-4 decision by the Supreme Court in 2008 that said federal judges did have the right.
The appeals court said that only the executive branch, not the judiciary, could make decisions on immigration.
The Obama administration has meanwhile been making efforts to find a place for the Uighur detainees to go.
Four have been sent to Bermuda and six have said they will go to the Pacific island nation of Palau.