Garre returned to government in September 2005 as Principal Deputy Solicitor General . In this role , he represented the government in '' Munaf v. Geren '' , 553 U.S. 674 ( 2008 ) , arguing before the Supreme Court that U.S. federal courts lacked jurisdiction over two U.S. citizens being held by the military in Iraq based on '' Hirota v. MacArthur '' , a 1948 Supreme Court case that " rejected habeas corpus petitions from Japanese prisoners who had been convicted of war crimes by an international tribunal " . He also won '' Baze v. Rees '' ( 2008 )
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Gregory G. Garre