The Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments in the case of men who have challenged the U.S. government's right to continue holding them at the Guantanamo Bay detention center even though it's been determined they represent no threat to the USA.

Whether the case will ever really reach the High Court isn't clear, however. All but one of the group — ethnic Uighurs from western China — have already been released or will be soon. If none are left at the detention center by the time the case would be heard next year, it might be dismissed instead.

Also today, a new coalition of retired U.S. military officers and the progressive group VoteVets.org released the first of what it says will be a series of national TV ads urging Congress to "close Gitmo now":

Former representative Tom Andrews, D-Maine, is among the group's organizers.