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Recent findings in law reviews described by researchers from Northwestern University
August 18th, 2007
"In Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, a five to three majority of the United States Supreme Court held unlawful the Bush Administration's use of militaiy commissions to try alien combatant detainees held at the United States airbase in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba," scientists writing in the journal Columbia Law Review report. "The most basic issue in Hamdan was whether the Supreme Court had jurisdiction to hear the case. justice Scalia's dissenting opinion argued that the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 stripped the Supreme Court and all other courts of jurisdiction to hear habeas cases such as Hamdan's. Hamdan argued in the Supreme Court that to read the Detainee Treatment Act to...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2007-08-18)
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