Tuesday, April 20, 2004
Supreme Court Watch
Over the next 10 days the Supreme Court will be hearing three cases related to the war on terror. Central to each is the question of whether our government has the ability to imprison people indefinitely without the need to provide legal council or to formally charge them with a crime. Two of these cases involve U.S. citizens. Last Sunday, Linda Greenhouse of the N.Y. Times provided two summaries of the applicable legal issues and quoted from CATO Institute friend-of-the-court briefs in the Hamdi and Padilla cases.
The fundamental argument here is whether the judiciary, as a co-equal branch of the federal government with the executive, has any authority over its actions in time of military conflict, especially in regard to U.S. citizens who have certain rights protected by our constitution. Stay tuned.
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The fundamental argument here is whether the judiciary, as a co-equal branch of the federal government with the executive, has any authority over its actions in time of military conflict, especially in regard to U.S. citizens who have certain rights protected by our constitution. Stay tuned.
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