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...celebrations were taking place last Tuesday as the executive branch rejoiced over its success in its long-running battle for control over the treatment of terrorists by the use of military commissions. June of this year had brought a bitter defeat for the administration in the Supreme Court case Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, which rejected the legitimacy of military tribunals and their suspension of constitutional rights. But the new Military Commissions Act now hands the president even more power than he held before this summer’s hiccup, and paves the way for more extreme behaviors, all in the name...

Author: By Bede A. Moore | Title: So Farewell Then, Constitution | 10/24/2006 | See Source »

...Tortured Negotiations White House officials, potentially vulnerable to prosecution in the wake of the Supreme Court's Hamdan decision, break out the big guns in a battle over detainees

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leveraging the Lobbyist Scandal | 10/1/2006 | See Source »

...other part of the dispute emerged from a Supreme Court decision last summer in the case of a Guantanamo prisoner named Hamdan. The court ruled that the prisoner was entitled to additional due process rights at trial, a move that required Congress to define those rights in statute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coming Together on Torture | 9/21/2006 | See Source »

...Tortured Negotiations White House officials, potentially vulnerable to prosecution in the wake of the Supreme Court's Hamdan decision, break out the big guns in a battle over detainees

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Guide to the Terrorism Bills | 9/18/2006 | See Source »

...humiliating and degrading treatment.” The Bush administration has been unequivocal in stating that the United States is at war, yet for the last five years Bush has acted as if the Conventions do not apply. The Supreme Court found this summer in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld that Common Article Three does indeed apply to the war with Al Qaeda. That holding “put in question the future of the CIA Program,” according to the White House. Bush has responded by proposing the Military Commissions Act of 2006, and demanded in a September...

Author: By Melissa Quino mccreery, | Title: Conventions, Not Conveniences | 9/18/2006 | See Source »

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