A bill, provisionally called the Habeas Corpus Restoration Act of 2007, S. 185, passed the United States Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, June 7, 2007.
[4] On June 29, 2007, the Supreme Court agreed to hear outstanding habeas corpus cases, opening up the possibility that they might overturn some or all of the Military Commissions Act.
[6] On September 19, 2007, the Senate voted on a cloture motion for including the Habeas Corpus Restoration Act as an amendment to the FY 2008 Defense Department Authorization bill.
Those Republicans were Chuck Hagel (R-Nebraska), Richard Lugar (R-Indiana), Gordon Smith (R-Oregon), Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), John Sununu (R-New Hampshire), and Arlen Specter (R-Pennsylvania), who sponsored the bill.
[11] Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) stated that the Senate's passage of the Military Commissions Act, which suspended habeas corpus for detainees, "calls into question the United States' historic role of defender of human rights in the world.