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Salim Hamdan had spent two years as a prisoner at Guant??namo Bay when he first met Lieut. Commander Charles Swift, his Pentagon-appointed Navy defense lawyer. At the meeting, Swift suggested the possibility of suing President Bush on Hamdan's behalf...
...movie beats down even the most stalwart viewer's resistance, in a Guant??namo of giddiness. The supporting actresses help out. Baranski, slim and large-mouthed, and Walters, wizened and hiding behind shades, might be Mick and Keith in a Rolling Stones girl tribute band, and they lend all their show-biz savvy to vivid renditions of, respectively, Does Your Mother Know and Take a Chance on Me. Seyfried, from the HBO series Big Love, is in full control of Sophie, the film's one sensible character. And Streep comes back to earth in a handsomely calibrated rendition...
...sanctioned government officials to physically and psychologically torment U.S.-held captives, making torture the official law of the land in all but name." The author, an investigative reporter for the New Yorker, meticulously demonstrates that the Administration, fully aware that as many as a third of the detainees in Guant??namo may have had no connection to terrorism, still proceeded with medieval treatment that the Red Cross warned was "categorically" torture. Mayer's work (nearly 400 pages of sometimes graphic detail) may defeat the casual reader. But her account of secret prisons, black-hooded renditions in the middle...
...election-year pandering in Obama's embrace of a court that many predicted would veer to the right under Chief Justice John Roberts. But by any measure, the term that just ended was hardly a disaster for liberals. On the contrary, liberals won several important victories--not only the Guant??namo and child-rape cases but also a series of employment-discrimination cases in which the court sided with workers rather than employers, by broad, bipartisan majorities...
...long will the changed mood last? The role of personality on the Supreme Court shouldn't be overstated. In cases in which they have strong, pre-existing constitutional views on issues from abortion to guns to Guant??namo, the Justices are unlikely to persuade one another. And as Scalia said, "What changes the court, I assure you, is much less the character of the Chief Justice--although that has some effect--than it is the nature of the people who have been appointed." That's why, regardless of Roberts' current consensus-building, the future of the court will be determined...