The case would be the first to deal with terror detainees that has come before the Supreme Court since President Barack Obama came to power in January.
The men - captured in Afghanistan - have asked for the top court to lift a bar imposed on their release by a federal court of appeals in Washington, according to the request filed on Monday.
The 14, who are members of the predominantly Muslim and Turkic-speaking Uighur minority, have been cleared of accusations that they were "enemy combatants," but legal wrangling over their fate continues. (...)
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