The Supreme Court was asked yesterday to rule on the case of Yaser Esam Hamdi. For nearly two years, Hamdi, who is a U.S. citizen, has been locked up on a naval brig in South Carolina. The government has not filed charges against him, has not presented evidence of guilt and has barred him from meeting with an attorney. President Bush has designated Hamdi, who was captured in Afghanistan, to be an enemy combatant and thus stripped of any legal rights. Public defender Frank Dunham filed an appeal to the Supreme Court yesterday on behalf of Hamdi who he has been barred from seeing. Dunham said, “The man’s been locked up for two years. He wants an opportunity to be heard in court. It goes right to the heart of our liberties.”