Presidentially coined labels created a legal category that suspends constitutional rights.

Evidence

President Bush labeled him an “enemy combatant,” a category created during the War on Terror to designate persons who would not be entitled to constitutional, international, or basic human rights; the creative terminology of the president has become a legal foundation for the U.S. government’s logic of exception. — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media, 1064

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Agamben’s state of exception and concepts of administrative suspension of rights; also to the logic of a ‘creative’ legal language the reader has encountered in discussions of indefinite detention.