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...They Lost Bush agreed to make public some details about the program's tactics, giving Congress and citizens a chance to object. The Senators will let the CIA keep some "off the books" detainees. They could be subject to abuse verging on torture. The bill would effectively void habeas corpus petitions of detainees who have demanded to be either charged or freed...
...Earlier this week, the American Bar Association wrote to members of Congress protesting provisions of the House proposal, notably Section 5, which "strips judicial review of existing habeas corpus claims for detainees in U.S. custody...
...which of your preferences you’ll be assigned to. Escape is impossible and transferring sections is difficult, so your initial choice is important and you have precious little information on which to base it. Enjoy! Expos is a methods class; its aim is not to impart a corpus of knowledge to you. Different sections nevertheless vary in amounts of reading and requirements. Some classes emphasize image interpretation; predictably, those will entail less reading and consequently less work. Others are half-methods, half-material courses that require you to spend plenty of time in Widener (bring a friend...
...know if they are right. What I do know is that Presidents in wartime assert that their constitutional responsibility for national security trumps any issue of civil liberties. Often that has meant trampling on them. From John Adams' Sedition Act to Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus to Woodrow Wilson's draconian Espionage Act to F.D.R.'s internment of American citizens of Japanese descent, Presidents have constitutionally overreached. Last week's Supreme Court decision in the Hamdan case suggested that Bush had too--although his actions hardly compare with the examples above...
More than 400 habeas corpus cases, in which Guantánamo petitioners are challenging the legality of their detention, are percolating around the country. Lawyers who filed some of those petitions tell TIME that they anticipate that the Supreme Court ruling will open a path for those cases to head up the chain of appeals. The Administration argues that the courts have no jurisdiction, and Congress barred judges from ruling on almost all future habeas appeals from Gitmo by passing the Detainee Treatment Act last December...