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Self-Defense, The 2nd Amendment, And The U.S. Supreme Court, Richard Aynes
Self-Defense, The 2nd Amendment, And The U.S. Supreme Court, Richard Aynes
Akron Law Faculty Publications
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Bush V. Boumediene: The Court Is Back, Jay Dratler
Bush V. Boumediene: The Court Is Back, Jay Dratler
Akron Law Faculty Publications
This short article is a follow-up to a piece I wrote two years ago on Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, SSRN No. 913822. While applauding the result in Hamdan, I critiqued the Supreme Court for missing a “teachable moment” and obscuring the great issues at stake in prolixity and mind-numbing technical detail.
In this article, I applaud the Boumediene v. Bush Court not only for its result—that the Constitution’s Suspension Clause can require habeas corpus for aliens held abroad under certain circumstances—but for its reasoning and style as well. This time, the majority of five did not miss its “teachable …
Bush V. Boumediene: The Court Is Back, Jay Dratler
Bush V. Boumediene: The Court Is Back, Jay Dratler
Jay Dratler
This short article is a follow-up to a piece I wrote two years ago on Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, SSRN No. 913822. While applauding the result in Hamdan, I critiqued the Supreme Court for missing a “teachable moment” and obscuring the great issues at stake in prolixity and mind-numbing technical detail.In this article, I applaud the Boumediene v. Bush Court not only for its result—that the Constitution’s Suspension Clause can require habeas corpus for aliens held abroad under certain circumstances—but for its reasoning and style as well. This time, the majority of five did not miss its “teachable moment,” but placed …
Waterboarding Is Illegal, Wilson R. Huhn
Waterboarding Is Illegal, Wilson R. Huhn
Akron Law Faculty Publications
In his 2007 confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee considering his nomination to be Attorney General of the United States, Judge Michael Mukasey refused to address the legality of waterboarding. In my opinion there is no reasonable dispute about this matter. The laws of the United States make waterboarding unlawful in no uncertain terms.
Self-Defense, The 2nd Amendment, And The U.S. Supreme Court, Richard Aynes
Self-Defense, The 2nd Amendment, And The U.S. Supreme Court, Richard Aynes
Richard L. Aynes
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