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  • Good Day in Gitmo, Bad Day in Iraq


    While there's much, much more to be said on the Supreme Court's blockbuster decision today in Boumediene , the not-quite-companion case involving U.S. citizens held by the Americans in Iraq also came down today—and the news there is hardly pro-detainee. Read More...
  • Open Minds and Munaf


    Phil , the Supremes have time-honored words ready-made to make your Munaf point. Here's the theme, from the court's 1949 opinion in Watts (p. 52), quoted verbatim in the 2004 Padilla dissent (p. 11 n.10): And there comes a point where this Court should Read More...
  • A Soldier's Take on Munaf


    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...
  • Curious About Munaf


    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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