1 day ago by constitutional lawblogger

Jane Mayer, author of The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals, wrote an excellent piece in the New Yorker detailing Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to try Khalid...

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4 days ago by Áine

Click here to view the embedded video. But even if you’re someone who does want the President to have the power to order American citizens killed without a trial by decreeing that they are Terrorists (and it’s worth remembering that if you advocate that power, it’s going to be vested in all Presiden ...

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5 days ago by constitutional lawblogger

Attorney General Eric Holder today wrote to Senator Mitch McConnell defending the Justice Department's use of the regular criminal justice system--and not military tribunals--to arrest, detain, charge, and try Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab in connection with his attempted bombing of Northwest...

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7 days ago by constitutional lawblogger

Chicago chapters of the American Constitution Society and the Federalist Society have (coincidentally) scheduled two exciting and related, but independent, programs this week and next, both related to detention and treatment of "enemy combatants." On Thursday the Chicago Lawyers Chapter...

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7 days ago by constitutional lawblogger

The Center for Constitutional Rights yesterday filed a cert. petition in the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of Maher Arar, the Canadian citizen detained by U.S. authorities, denied access to the courts, and delivered to Syria for torture, seeking review...

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18 days ago by Kevin Jefferies

It increases it.

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21 days ago by constitutional lawblogger

The government on Friday released the names of the detainees at Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan in response to a FOIA lawsuit by the ACLU. According to the list, there are 645 detainees at Bagram. The government redacted information about their...

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24 days ago by Tim Kowal

John Yoo gives an excellent explanation of his role in drafting the so-called “torture memos” and the role of the President as commander-in-chief. This despite the fact that Jon Stewart seemed to lack the mental hardware to keep up with him. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Posted in Uncategorized

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33 days ago by constitutional lawblogger

The Federalist Society is hosting an on-line debate on the legal and policy implications of the administration's decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and others in regular Article III courts, while trying some Guantanamo detainees in military commissions. The debate...

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33 days ago by constitutional lawblogger

The D.C. Circuit will hear oral arguments tomorrow in Al-Maqaleh v. Gates, the case testing whether habeas corpus, established for detainees at Guantanamo Bay in Boumediene v. Bush, extends to detainees at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan. We analyzed the lower...

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