No Habeas at Guantanamo? The Executive Branch and the Dubious Tale of the DTA
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Ian Wallach, habeas counsel for several Guantanamo Bay detainees, says that the US Executive Branch may have engaged in questionable acts and disseminated inaccurate information to encourage Senate passage of provisions in the Detainee Treatment Act...
No Habeas at Guantanamo? The Executive and the Dubious Tale of the DTA
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Ian Wallach, habeas counsel for several Guantanamo Bay detainees, says that the US Executive Branch may have engaged in questionable acts and disseminated inaccurate information to encourage Senate passage of provisions in the Detainee Treatment Act...
JURIST Guest Columnist Brian J. Foley of Florida Coastal School of Law says that the greatest threat posed by President Bush's domestic surveillance program is not to the privacy of ordinary Americans but rather to the independence of potential political...
JURIST Guest Columnist Brian Foley of Florida Coastal School of Law says that while senators are likely to query Judge Samuel Alito this week about his views on executive power, they themselves have dangerously indulged it without setting clear limitations,...
US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia commented Monday that the Supreme Court confirmation process was too politicized and that he would not want to experience it again. Scalia, when asked during an interview ...
Harvard Law waives nondiscrimination pledge for military recruiters
Harvard Law School will open its career services office to military recruiters beginning this fall, despite the Pentagon's refusal to sign the school's nondiscrimination pledge, Dean Elena Kagan said Tuesday in a letter to...
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin Sunday slammed what he called "goofy laws" for slowing down federal and state response to the disaster that unfolded in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, which devastated the Gulf Coast last...
Federal court to hear challenge to military "Don't ask, don't tell" policy
A federal court in Boston will hear arguments Friday in the case of twelve members of the armed forces who are challenging the military's "Don't ask, don't tell" policy that requires them...
The office of the Pentagon's general counsel has sent leaders of the US Senate and House of Representatives Armed Services Committees a draft copy of a proposal saying that consensual sodomy between members of the US military...
Consequences of DOD "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military [GAO]
Financial Costs and Loss of Critical Skills Due to DOD's Homosexual Conduct Policy Cannot be Completely Estimated, Government Accountability Office , February 23, 2005 [report indicating that the policy has hurt recruiting and retention as the war in Iraq has...
