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Nor can Walker be hauled in front of a military tribunal, because President Bush decreed that they try only noncitizens. Courts generally regard citizenship as a right that can be relinquished but not taken away. That means Walker's case would have to go to federal court, but nowhere in...
Walker may have been only a foot soldier and may not know much about Taliban leaders. But many legal observers expect Walker to cut a deal whereby he cooperates with U.S. authorities, possibly providing valuable information about the Taliban, in exchange for pleading guilty to a lesser offense. If that...
The most tension-packed moment of Assistant Attorney General Michael Chertoff's appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week came, not surprisingly, when he was forced to defend the Bush Administration's embrace of military tribunals. How could the U.S. hold trials in which the judges are military officers...
Above all, critics of the tribunal idea question why these cases cannot be brought and won in regular federal courts. When the World Trade Center was attacked in 1993, federal prosecutors convicted the bombers, including mastermind Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, in a regular federal court in Manhattan. Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman...
Civil libertarians are worried that what they see as the Bush Administration's post-Sept. 11 rights grab on all these different fronts will be with us forever. Congress insisted on applying the sunset rule to many provisions of the U.S.A. Patriot Act, the main new law to come out...