I wanted to offer one final post on Hamdan. Robert Araujo at Mirror of Justice as this interesting post on Hamdan and the use of comparative and international law: I am sure I join many others who are still working their ways through the Hamdan v. Rumsfeld decision. At this stage I would like to make a brief observation about...
Today is the one year anniversary of the July 7 bombings in London. I came across these award-winning haiku commemorating the London bombings. While I do not normally post something like this, I thought you might find them appropriate for the occasion: sounds of war:the morning appletastes bitter Carlos Fleitas, UY Blasts in London—a pigeon flies from...
Given that Walter Dellinger has described Hamdan v. Rumsfeld as the "the most important decision on presidential power ever" I guess it would come as little surprise that I would vote for Hamdan as the most important case for the month of June. Although I seriously doubt Dellinger's conclusion is correct, I do predict that the decision will have...
Imagine a man who professes over and over his unending love for a woman but who knows nothing of where she was born or who her parents were or where she went to school or what her life had been until he came along--and furthermore, doesn't care to learn. What would you think of such a person? Yet we appear...
One small sidenote about Hamdan that struck me this morning: the superiority of the blogosphere over the mainsteam media to address breaking news such as Supreme Court decisions. Were any of you just dying to know what Adam Liptak or Linda Greenhouse of the New York Times thought about Hamdan? I had very little interest in their take...
Georgetown's new faculty blog has some great stuff on Hamdan, including summaries of a recent panel about Hamdan that included Neal Katyal (lead counsel for Hamdan), David Luban, Mark Tushnet, and Carlos Vázquez. (There also is an audio of the panel available here and a C-Span video available here). ...
Having now digested the Hamdan decision further, I wanted to offer a few initial thoughts about its significance. These are just initial impressions, so I am open to correction (and please tell me where you think I need correction). My focus is slightly different than others, and will address how the Bush Administration and Congress must respond to...
We have invited Professor Geoffrey Corn of South Texas Law School, who was a former guest blogger at Opinio Juris and is an expert on military justice, to summarize his initial impressions of today's decisions in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld. Here is his summary: When the DC Circuit rejected Hamdan's challenge to the Military Commission, it accepted the government argument that...
The Supreme Court today issued its decision in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and ruled that the military commissions were invalid. The decision is available here. Justice Stevens wrote the 5-3 opinion and was joined by Justices Breyer, Ginsburg, Souter, and in part Justice Kennedy. Justices Kennedy and Breyer wrote separate opinions. Justices Alito, Thomas, and Scalia dissented...
We have invited Professor Carlos Vázquez at Georgetown Law Center to summarize his initial impressions of today's decision in Sanchez-Llamas and Bustillo. Here is his summary: In these two cases, state prisoners relied on the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations in challenging their criminal convictions. State courts in numerous cases had denied relief on the ground that the treaty, although self-executing,...
This article from the Independent strongly suggests that the detainees who committed suicide did not do so as an act of desperation or depression. It also illuminates details on the suicides and how the detainees used benefits they were accorded at the request of the Red Cross against the United States. "Every time we give them something to...
The Supreme Court just renderened its decision in the companion cases of Sanchez-Llamas v. Oregon and Bustillo v. Johnson. The decision can be accessed here. The decision was 6-3 with Chief Justice Roberts writing the opinion and Justices Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas, and Alito joining. Justice Ginsburg filed an opinion concurring in the judgment. Justice Breyer wrote...
