I 
110TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6615 
To provide for the transport of the enemy combatants detained in Guanta-
namo Bay, Cuba to Washington, DC, where the United States Supreme 
Court will be able to more effectively micromanage the detainees by 
holding them on the Supreme Court grounds, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 24, 2008 
Mr. GOHMERT introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on the Judi-
ciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each 
case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of 
the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To provide for the transport of the enemy combatants de-
tained in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to Washington, DC, 
where the United States Supreme Court will be able 
to more effectively micromanage the detainees by holding 
them on the Supreme Court grounds, and for other pur-
poses. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Giving Inmate Terror-
ists More Opportunities (GITMO) Act of 2008’’. 
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SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) The United States Supreme Court issued an 
opinion styled Boumediene v. Bush on June 12, 
2008. 
(2) Justice Anthony Kennedy, in the court’s 
majority opinion, held that foreign terrorism sus-
pects held at the Guantanamo Bay naval base in 
Cuba have constitutional rights to challenge their 
detention in United States courts. 
(3) This is an obvious effort on the part of the 
Supreme Court to micromanage the detainment and 
disposition of detainees in the War on Terror who 
are dedicated to destroying innocent people and the 
American way of life. 
(4) The United States Supreme Court clearly 
needs increased opportunity to oversee the handling 
of the enemy combatants, as it has seen fit to take 
a greater role in managing the Global War on Ter-
ror, which is a duty previously exercised by the Ex-
ecutive Branch. 
(5) There can be no better way for the United 
States Supreme Court to exercise its new self-ap-
pointed war powers than to house the prisoners 
whom it has taken a greater role in overseeing. 
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SEC. 3. TRANSPORTATION AND DETAINMENT OF ENEMY 
COMBATANTS. 
(a) TRANSPORTATION.—The Secretary of Defense 
shall immediately transport all enemy combatants de-
tained in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to Washington, DC, 
where the United States Supreme Court shall hold the 
prisoners on the Court grounds, confined by adequate 
fencing. 
(b) SHELTER
ON
SUPREME
COURT
BUILDING 
GROUNDS.—The Secretary of Defense, in conjunction 
with Justice Anthony Kennedy, the author of the majority 
opinion in Boumediene v. Bush, is directed to provide shel-
ter for the detainees outside the United States Supreme 
Court building, but on the building grounds. The Sec-
retary of Defense shall provide guards to watch over the 
prisoners and shall implement a system to ensure that the 
prisoners receive the appropriate amount of food and 
water. Should the detainees need the use of restroom fa-
cilities, they shall use the facilities inside the United 
States Supreme Court building. The Chief Justice, if the 
Chief Justice so chooses, may perform the duties of Jus-
tice Anthony Kennedy under this subsection. 
(c) GUARD DUTY.—If any of the nine Supreme Court 
justices desire at any time to stand guard over the pris-
oners, or to provide the prisoners with their meals or 
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water, or both, then the justices shall be permitted to per-
form these functions whenever they want. 
SEC. 4. ENFORCEMENT. 
If either the Secretary of Defense or any justice of 
the Supreme Court refuses to carry out their duties under 
this Act, then their respective department or court shall 
receive funding for the next fiscal year at half the level 
of funding appropriated for the current fiscal year, or until 
such time as the Supreme Court no longer desires to 
micromanage the prisoners who have sworn to destroy our 
way of life. 
Æ 
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