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  • So being an American citizen doesn't get you much?

    So I guess this means that if you're unfortunate enough to be an American citizen in a foreign country a.k.a Iraq, you're bascially screwed and no better than those pesky insurgents who keep blowing up things. Let me see, if I have my passport and birth certificate that states that I was stupid enough to be born here, then I automatically wave my ...
    Posted to Supreme Court Dispatches by curveball on March 26, 2008

  • Munaf and Omar Cont'd

    How did the original Latin writ read? If I remember correctly, it was an order to the official holding the prisoner to bring the prisoner before the King's court for disposition. I guess that by Coke's time this routinely meant releasing the prisoner from custody. But need it mean this? Perhaps the District Courts could order their respective ...
    Posted to Convictions Archive by bluehorse on March 24, 2008

  • A New Writ: Please detain me!

    How did the original Latin writ read? If I remember correctly, it was an order to the official holding the prisoner to bring the prisoner before the King's court for disposition. I guess that by Coke's time this routinely meant releasing the prisoner from custody. But need it mean this? Perhaps the District Courts could order their respective ...
    Posted to Convictions Archive by bluehorse on March 24, 2008

  • Please Detain Me

    How did the original Latin writ read? If I remember correctly, it was an order to the official holding the prisoner to bring the prisoner before the King's court for disposition. I guess that by Coke's time this routinely meant releasing the prisoner from custody. But need it mean this? Perhaps the District Courts could order their respective ...
    Posted to Convictions Archive by bluehorse on March 24, 2008

  • The rights of enemy combatants

    I think a point is being missed. To my knowledge, the individuals being detained are not accused of being criminals, but of being combatants. To say that they should be ''charged with their crimes or released'' is therefore a misnomer. It is not generally considered to be a crime to be a soldier against another country. At the same time, ...
    Posted to Supreme Court Dispatches by The McLush on December 6, 2007

  • the bigger point

    When our forefathers declared their independence from England the rhetoric they used was widely encompassing. ''All men are created equal'' they said, and have god given, ''unalienable rights''. They were not simply taking the prvilidges which were withheld from them by King George. They were claiming that they and every other person on ...
    Posted to Supreme Court Dispatches by bellerophon3 on December 6, 2007