HR0931 Summary

• Expresses opposition to granting Miranda rights and other constitutional protections afforded to U.S. citizens to non-citizen enemy combatants accused of terrorist acts and detained in the Global War on Terror.

• Calls upon the Obama Administration and U.S. Department of Justice to reconsider their position of allowing civilian criminal trials for non-citizen enemy combatants charged with terrorist acts.

• States that non-uniformed, non-citizen enemy combatants should not receive the same rights as uniformed prisoners of war and should instead be subjected to military tribunals established by law.

• Supports Congressional legislation to prohibit civilian criminal charges and trials for persons accused of terrorist acts against the United States, specifically referencing the proposed trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

• Directs transmission of the resolution to the President, Attorney General, Secretary of Defense, U.S. Senators from Illinois, and the Illinois congressional delegation.