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To follow up my first post on Bruce Ackerman's and Oona Hathaway's op-ed , I'd also note that he and his co-author presume that Section 2(a)(2), authorizing military force to "enforce all relevant United Nations Security Council Resolutions regarding Read More...
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Too often, people caught up in heated political debates assert that disfavored policies are not merely disfavored but illegal . Of course, the debate over the war in Iraq has been no exception to this sorry habit, as the Bush administration's critics Read More...
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Via Scott Horton comes the news that the U.S. Marine Corps has charged an Iraqi-Canadian civilian contractor in Iraq with brandishing a knife and stabbing another contractor. The charges follow an important change to the Uniform Code of Military Justice Read More...
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Like Marty , Diane , and Deborah , I, too, am excited about today's oral argument in Munaf and Omar . Not just because I think this case raises thorny issues, but also because this case deals with a subject I have some personal experience with. I served Read More...
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No answers to questions by Eric and Deborah , but more questions about Munaf : There's something curious about the United States' position in Munaf v. Geren , on which the Supreme Court will hear oral argument Tuesday morning. Petitioning for a writ of Read More...
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Suppose that U.S. troops are on patrol in country X. Perhaps they are engaging in joint maneuvers with that country's armed forces; perhaps they are there for some other reason. Some soldiers out on maneuvers run across a person whose face is on a "wanted" Read More...
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Of all the striking things about the consolidated cases the Supreme Court is set to hear this Tuesday — presenting the question whether U.S. citizens held by the U.S. military in Iraq can seek habeas review of their detention in the U.S. federal courts Read More...
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Democrat Barack Obama has persuasively made his case to be president of the United States to this former constitutional lawyer for two Republican presidents. Here's why. . . Read More...
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I'd like to add to the Cheney discussion that Adam , Jack , Eric and Dawn have been having with a note about his comments today on the war, because I think they illuminate further his views on executive power. ABC News' Martha Raddatz sat down with Vice Read More...
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The Republicans have a problem: John McCain. Oh, he's a military hero and all, and despite a wife who seems to lurk over him — well, everywhere (Spitzer could have used such a mate) — he is our courageous, if economically unschooled, nominee. I say "our" Read More...
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