Word: hafetz
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...Eliminating habeas will effectively sanction precisely the coercive interrogations that Graham, Warner and McCain have tried to oppose by allowing people to be detained indefinitely based on evidence elicited by torture," argues Jonathan Hafetz of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, who represents Guantanmo prisoners. He points, for example, to Mohammad al-Qahtani, the so-called 20th hijacker, who was repeatedly abused during his interrogation at Guantanamo, and who has since implicated some 30 other fellow prisoners who are still being held without trial...
...government’s argument that FAIR doesn’t have the right to challenge the Solomon Amendment without revealing the names of its members violates...the First Amendment protection of legal advocacy,” said Jonathan L. Hafetz, a New York-based attorney for the firm Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger and Vecchione, which is representing Lambda and its fellow signatories...
...Hafetz told The Crimson on Saturday that today’s brief will argue in favor of FAIR’s standing to sue, but will not present an opinion on the merits of the Solomon Amendment itself...
...argument dates back to the late 1950s, when the Supreme Court ruled that a civil rights group in Alabama could protect its members’ anonymity to shield them from retaliation at the hands of segregationists, Hafetz said...
...have protested when it was clear that the White House was seriously considering a pardon for Rich, the global financier who fled the U.S. after he was indicted in 1982. In testimony before Congress, there were some discrepancies between Holder and Quinn regarding their contacts. Quinn's lawyer, Fred Hafetz, wouldn't discuss the grand jury appearances, saying only that Quinn "is cooperating fully, as he did with the congressional investigation," in which he testified at length...