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US Fifth Circuit rejects detainees’ constitutional bond-hearing claim
A judge who, in an October 2026 dissent, said Supreme Court review could reduce the constitutional ruling’s significance.
Leslie H. Southwick is a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, a lawyer and judge, and a citizen of the United States born in 1950.

A judge who, in an October 2026 dissent, said Supreme Court review could reduce the constitutional ruling’s significance.