'''''Hamdi v. Rumsfeld''''' is a 2004 [[U.S. Supreme Court]] decision concerning the authority of the [[President of the United States|President]] to detain enemy combatants.
The petitioner, Hamdi, was considered to be an American citizen based on his birth in [[Louisiana]]. He was caught in [[Afghanistan]], supposedly fighting with the [[Taliban]]. He was held in a naval Brig in Charleston, [[South Carolina]], but later the Supreme Court ruled that he should have had [[due process]] of Law.