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In times of crisis, such as the “War on Terror,” when suspects deemed as threats to national security are subject to the highest levels of punishment, an important question is whether executive ...

The Supreme Court's ruling in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld halts the military tribunals planned for Guantanamo detainees. But it does not call for the... Ruling: The Supreme Court ruled that President Bush ...

Challenge to the validity of the military commissions established by President Bush to try detainees as part of the war against terrorism. DECIDED In November 2001, President Bush issued an order ...

Salim Hamdan had spent two years as a prisoner at Guantánamo Bay when he first met Lieut. Commander Charles Swift, his Pentagon-appointed Navy defense lawyer. At the meeting, Swift suggested the ...

In August of 2003, in a federal courtroom in San Francisco, a lawyer for the United States made an alarming statement. The court, the lawyer argued, was completely powerless to rule on the legitimacy ...

CFR Adjunct Fellow Noah Feldman, discussing the legal issues at stake in the upcoming Hamdan decision, says the case will decide whether military tribunals are constitutionally sufficient and warns ...

While the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision Hamdan v. Rumsfeld has created word of policy changes from the White House, local attorneys who represent Guant namo Bay detainees are waiting to see just ...

Hamdan's story could fill a movie, and Poitras does justice to the legal maneuvers that landed Hamdan v. Rumsfeld before the Supreme Court. But the center of The Oath turns out to be a man whom ...

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Earlier this summer, the Supreme Court invalidated the system set up by President Bush to try accused war criminals at Guantanamo. The ruling, in... 'Hamdan v. Rumsfeld': Path to a Landmark Ruling ...

Here’s another excellent article from Jeffrey Toobin of the New Yorker. It’s about the role played by Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA), outgoing chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, with respect to the ...