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Detainees in the U.S. who were rounded up shortly after 9/11 on immigration charges also have no right to court-appointed counsel, but they are allowed to hire their own. In their case, one problem has been that some of the detainees were transferred from place to place, making representation difficult. "We had attorneys trying to track their clients all over the country as they were moved around," said Marshall Fitz of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. "Access to attorneys was extremely limited...
...vast majority of terrorism cases, judges have sided with the government against the objections of prisoners or their counsel. But there are some notable exceptions, including one case that could undercut some of the government's central legal aims. In March two men, Irfan Kamran, 32, and Sajjad Nasser, 28, were held in prison, charged with harboring an illegal immigrant, while the FBI tried to determine whether they had links to al-Qaeda. Kamran, a naturalized American citizen, and Nasser, a Pakistani, are cousins who had been living legally in the U.S. for years but returned occasionally to their native...
Either of those cases could wind up in the Supreme Court. "To say that the Executive Branch on its own determination can pick somebody up and hold them indefinitely without any procedure or access to a court or to counsel or the press is an absolutely staggering thought," says Stephen Schulhofer, a law professor at New York University and the author of The Enemy Within, a book produced for the Century Foundation, that examines post-9/11 questions of civil liberty. The Attorney General insists that misses the larger point. "There are no civil liberties that are more important than...
Harvard Overseers may be plenty right and plenty honorable, but we aren’t very powerful. Advice without much meaningful consent is our game. My counsel for incoming Overseers is to find something that you feel passionate about and then try to insinuate yourself into policy-making in that area, because one thing being an Overseer provides is access...
Thomas Bracken, legal counsel for the defense fund, said that his group has appealed the Planning Board’s April 1 authorization of the changes...