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...about Bush's actions. Instead, they got Abu Ghraib, murky interrogation techniques and assorted other products of executive power gone unchecked. Not until 2004 did another branch of the federal government step in, and it was the Supreme Court, which ruled that the U.S. courts had the authority to review detainee cases and that military tribunals fell far short of the fair hearings required...
...didn't apply to pending cases. Congress quickly responded with yet another law - the Military Commissions Act - removing court jurisdiction over all detainee cases, so the only way a detainee can now challenge his imprisonment is before a bare-bones military commission, and then, in a review limited to whether the commission followed its own rules, before the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington...
...that's hardly the end of the story. The Supreme Court has agreed to review the Military Commissions Act, and things don't look good for Bush. The act's opponents argue essentially that it can't overcome the Constitution's bar to suspending habeas except in cases of "rebellion or invasion," conditions that, no matter how dramatically the President may portray the war on terrorism, don't exist. The act's supporters counter that the constitutional provision doesn't apply to people held outside the U.S., in places like Guantanamo...
Rather, the presence of the trucks will be staggered, so approximately 20 to 30 of the trucks will be found on Western Avenue at any one time. In addition, according to the construction management plan that is on review with the city at the moment, trucks will never be found on a residential city street...
Editor’s Note: This review does not reveal any major plot points from the book, so feel free to read the review and enjoy “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” in any order...