Posts Tagged ‘habeas corpus’
Results Oriented Thinking in the War on Terror
Over at the Volokh Conspiracy, Orin Kerr works himself into knots in two convoluted posts about the al-Marri case (4th Circuit rules that Qatari student living in the U.S. can’t be held indefinitely as an “enemy combatant”). Prof. Kerr trots out a hypothetical familiar to anyone who has studied Criminal Procedure generally and the 4th…
Read MoreAlberto Gonzales, Master Weasel
Attorney General Gonzales has been busy testifying before Congress. His careful parsing brings you the following entertaining episodes of Constitution shredding and defendant torturing. First, courtesy of Hit & Run, habeas corpus is not for everyone: Sen. Arlen Specter: Now wait a minute, wait a minute. The Constitution says you can’t take it away except…
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