...At the Center for Constitutional Rights, legal director Baher Azmy said Friday the civil liberties group that has championed detainee rights at Guantánamo since nearly the day the prison opened would look to challenge detention of an Islamic State captive there in federal courts.

“Legally, there is no reasonable way an ISIS detention could be justified under the law that justifies the current detentions. That turns on the AUMF, a connection to 9/11,” Azmy said, noting that based on candidate Trump’s campaign rhetoric the New York firm might find itself re-litigating already presumed settled questions.

The first order of business, he said, would be getting access to any new Guantánamo captive, making sure he is not kept incommunicado like the Bush administration did in the first years before the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Guantánamo captives do get to challenge their detention in federal courts....