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Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
The trial of Salim Ahmed Hamdan at Guantànamo Bay is the first US war crimes tribunal since World War II. Hamdan’s detention and case is one of the Supreme Court’s most significant decisions on presidential power and the rule of law. New york Times Magazine journalist, Jonathan Mahler discusses Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, the legality of the tribunals at Guantánamo Bay, and...
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Metroblogging Seattle (Free subscription) | 15/09/2008
... Mahler and Lt. Cmdr. Charles Swift talk about the case behind Mahler’s book, The Challenge: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Battle over Presidential Power . A riveting look at the Supreme Court’s landmark decision on presidential power, The Challenge follows the story of Salim Ahmed Hamdan, Osama bin Laden’s driver; Hamdan’s military lawyer, Lt. Cmdr. Charles Swift;...
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National Security Advisors (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
John C. Dehn has posted "Why Article 5 Status Determinations are Not Required at Guantánamo" ( Journal of International Criminal Justice, Vol. 6, Issue 2, pp. 371-383, 2008 ) on SSRN. From the abstract: On 17 December 2007 the Military Commission convened to try Salim Ahmed Hamdan ruled that, as part of Hamdan's challenge to its jurisdiction, Article 5 of the Geneva Convention...
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SCOTUSblog (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
Analysis In the annals of the ongoing constitutional battle in America’s courts over the “war-on-terrorism,” Shafiq Rasul, Yaser Esam Hamdi, Salim Ahmed Hamdan and Lakhdar Boumediene already have made history — especially in the Supreme Court. It now appears that Huzaifa Parhat could be the next detainee added to that list. A member of a long-persecuted Chinese Muslim [...]
