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Guantanamo

Prosecutions delayed

February 5, 2009

On Wednesday, the military’s highest court on war crimes prosecutions gave the Obama Administration a requested 120-day delay of a pending case to allow a new study of the fate of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.

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Deference to military judgement

July 1, 2008

Yesterday a federal appeals court released unclassified portions of its decision in Parhat v. Gates. Here's the lead from the New York Times:
In the first case to review the government’s secret evidence for holding a detainee at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, a federal appeals court found that accusations against a Muslim from western China held for [...]

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Scalia unbound

June 30, 2008

Here's an observation from Dahlia Lithwick on the Heller decision (concluding that the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to own a handgun):
But I must first pass along this rather brilliant observation from professor Stephen Wermiel from American University, who wonders why none of the dissenters cautioned the majority that today's decision"will almost certainly cause [...]

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