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Tuesday, August 09, 2005
MORE ON HAMDAN CERT WRIT REQUEST
More commentary on today's request for certiorari by Hamdan in front of the Supreme Court:
Read the actual brief here. It was written by Navy Lieutenant Commander Charles Swift, an infamous denouncer of the tribunals. I wrote about him a year ago in this post.
Lyle Denniston from SCOTUSBlog writes about the cert request in this post. He writes:
Read the actual brief here. It was written by Navy Lieutenant Commander Charles Swift, an infamous denouncer of the tribunals. I wrote about him a year ago in this post.
Lyle Denniston from SCOTUSBlog writes about the cert request in this post. He writes:
Hamdan's case is the most important war-on-terrorism appeal to reach the Supreme Court so far. Two rulings by the Justices in 2004 established some basic legal rights for detainees, to challenge their detention, and upheld presidential authority to detain foreign nationals -- at least for limited purpose. But the Hamdan case is the first to mount a direct challenge to plans to punish some of the detainees, and it raises legal issues that also will affect the rights of Guantanamo detainees who are not charged with war crimes but face the prospect of being held indefinitely.Categories: Tribunals, SCOTUS, Hamdan, Swift
