User-Created Clip by zlowe November 17, 2023 2023-09-17T20:32:45-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/1e6/1700242934.jpgGeorgetown University law professor Cliff ...

A number of readers have written asking questions about the construction I put on Ex parte Quirin in a recent post about the al-Awlaki case. Do I really believe that Quirin authorizes the president to ...

In stark contrast to Ex parte Quirin — the 1942 decision that upheld the constitutionality of a military tribunal established to try, and ultimately convict, German saboteurs — the Supreme Court ...

Under existing law, President George W. Bush has the legal authority to use military commissions to try certain suspected terrorists for violations of the law of war. In arguing otherwise, George P.

On Feb. 28, the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina directed the release of Jose Padilla, the terrorist who planned to detonate a “dirty bomb” in a major United States city. For ...

8/1/1942: Military commissions conclude for eight nazi saboteurs. The Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of these trials in Ex Parte Quirin.

Only a month earlier, the FBI had arrested eight German saboteurs intent on blowing up American factories, bridges and department stores. Now, on July 23, 1942, the lawyers for the Germans and U.S.

The Department of Justice is scrubbing the petrified grit off some pretty obscure case books. Trying to legally justify its decision to drop U.S. citizen and alleged terrorist Jose Padilla into a ...

It is some 820 miles from Chicago’s O’Hare Airport, where alleged al-Qaida ally Jose Padilla was arrested by FBI agents in May of 2002, to the Atlantic coast at Amagansett, N.Y., where, almost exactly ...

8/1/1942: Military commissions conclude for eight nazi saboteurs. The Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of these trials in Ex Parte Quirin.