17 days ago by constitutional lawblogger

The Supreme Court this week granted cert. in Kiyemba v. Obama, the habeas case of the Uighurs, the Chinese Muslims held now for over eight years at Guantanamo Bay. Some background: Judge Urbina (D.D.C.) ruledlast October on the Uighur's habeas petition that the government must release them into the ...

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18 days ago by constitutional lawblogger

The controversy over John Yoo's professorship at UC-Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) continues. The PBS News Hour aired a segment yesterday, available as mp3 audio, streaming video and transcript here. RR

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18 days ago by constitutional lawblogger

The American Constitution Society last week hosted an outstanding half-day symposium titled National Security & Human Rights: Progress, Problems and Possibilities. The link contains video and audio of the event. Here's the description: As the 5th anniversary of the Military Commissions Act approache ...

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23 days ago by constitutional lawblogger

The House of Representatives voted today to allow detainees at Guantanamo Bay to be tried in the United States. The bill, H.R. 2892, the Department of Homeland Security appropriation bill, Section 552, requires the Department to conduct a threat assessment for each detainee proposed to be transferre ...

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31 days ago by olcranky

The current administration is making a complete review of our strategy and position and prospects in Afghanistan to great public notice. It usually is best to consider such matters much more privately than is being done with this. The great decisions of WWII between Churchill and Roosevelt were made ...

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35 days ago by constitutional lawblogger

The New York Times today ran an excellent story by Scott Shane reviewing the challenges that the Obama administration faces in closing Guantanamo Bay and transferring or otherwise dealing with the remaining detainees, especially the Yemenis. The story highlights the case of Alla Ali Bin Ali Ahmed, a ...

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36 days ago by davidswanson

By David Swanson Remarks at http://whodecidesaboutwar.org conference. Who actually does: the media, weapons companies, the permanent government, presidents (including simply by decreeing a "war on terror", through misspending, lying, simply acting, signing treaties), political parties, culture (the ...

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37 days ago by davidswanson

By David Swanson On Thursday, 22 Democratic congress members introduced a bill to deny funding to any escalation of war in Afghanistan, and 60 Democratic senators voted that Congress should not even speak to a general about that war until after the president has decided whether to escalate it. These ...

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48 days ago by Patrick Krey

Recently, some prominent liberals have made significant efforts to disparage the tenth amendment/state sovereignty movement as ignorant, fringe, rightwing nut-jobs. But truly principled liberals* who desire a peaceful foreign policy are over looking how Jeffersonian constitutionalism of a limited fe ...

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49 days ago by Tenth Amendment

by Joseph R. Stromberg, The Freeman American government under the Constitution was supposedly meant to work as follows: Congress, staying within delegated powers and the Bill of Rights, passes laws; the president executes the laws; and the courts sort out ensuing wrangles. This plan ran aground rath ...

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