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Guantanamo rule change to require review of attorney letters in 9/11 case
Navy rear Adm. David Woods , commander of the Guantanamo Bay prison facility, has proposed a new rule that would require military officials to review all legal correspondence between lawyers and the detainees accused of involvement in the September (More) |
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Federal judge dismisses lawsuit by former Guantanamo detainee
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit [order, PDF; opinion, PDF] by a former Guantanamo Bay detainee alleging that he was subjected to torture. Abdul Rahim Abdul Razak Al Ginco, a Syrian nat (More) |
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Impunity and the International Rule of Law in Iraq
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Curtis Doebbler of Webster University and the Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations, both in Geneva, Switzerland, says the US and other aggressors in the Iraq War have not had to face legal recourse for (More) |
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US transfers final detainee to Iraq government
The US handed over the last detainee in Iraq, Ali Mussa Daqduq, to Iraqi authorities on Friday as part of the end of the Iraq War . Daqduq allegedly has links to Hezbollah and is accused of planning a raid in 2007 which resulted in the deaths of fi (More) |
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Congress reaches agreement on controversial defense bill
Leaders in the US House and Senate on Monday evening announced that they had reached an agreement on the National Defense Authorization Act for 2012 after making some modifications and adding text. The bill, which was passed by the Senate in its o (More) |
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CIA operated secret prison in Romania: AP report
The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operated a secret prison outside the capital of Romania, the Associated Press (AP) alleged on Thursday. A joint investigation between the AP and a German public television company, ARD Panorama , reportedl (More) |
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Senate approves defense spending bill with controversial detainee provision
The US Senate on Thursday voted 93-7 to pass the National Defense Authorization Act for 2012 , including a controversial provision authorizing the president to use "all necessary and appropriate force" to detain individuals suspected of terrorism. (More) |
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Senate rejects amendment to remove detainee provision in defense spending bill
The US Senate voted Tuesday to reject an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act for 2012 that would have struck a provision authorizing the president to use "all necessary and appropriate force" to detain individuals suspected of ter (More) |
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Continued Dysfunction Marks Guantanamo Bureaucracy
JURIST Guest Columnist J. Wells Dixon, Senior Staff Attorney for the Guantánamo Global Justice Initiative at the Center for Constitutional Rights, says there is a systematic dysfunction within the bureaucracy of the Guantánamo Bay detention (More) |
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White House threatens veto of defense spending bill over detainee provisions
The White House released a statement of administration policy on Thursday praising the work of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) on the National Defense Authorization Act for 2012 but warning that President Barack Obama could veto the b (More) |
John Marshall declared federal judicial supremacy over states
On February 20, 1809, US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall ruled in United States v. Peters that the legal power of the federal judiciary is greater than that of any individual state: "If the legislatures of the several states may, at will, annul the judgments of the courts of the United States, and destroy rights acquired under those judgments, the constitution itself becomes a solemn mockery; and the nation is deprived of the means of enforcing its laws by the instrumentality of its own tribunals."
