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18 Nov 2006, 9:16 am
The state-funded Habeas Corpus Resource Center, where Culhane worked as an investigator from 2001 until mid-2005, subsequently withdrew declarations she had submitted in other capital cases. [read post]
17 Nov 2006, 4:39 pm
Up to now, the main focus of attention on potential constitutional challenges to the Act has been on the claim that, if the Act is read to strip the courts of all power to decide any habeas plea by a detainee, it is unconstitutional as a suspension of the writ of habeas corpus. [read post]
17 Nov 2006, 11:16 am
The act abolishes the writ of habeas corpus, which Thomas Jefferson called one of the essential pillars of the American Republic. [read post]
16 Nov 2006, 9:02 pm
This is currently not the case under the Military Commission Act, which will be the subject of endless legal challenges. [read post]
16 Nov 2006, 8:39 am
His writ of habeas corpus — which observers say appeared to be cut and pasted — is cited by some as a prime example of the state's failure to adequately examine death penalty convictions. [read post]
14 Nov 2006, 5:32 am
Aliens normally have the right to contest their imprisonment, such as when they are arrested on immigration violations or for other crimes.The government's argument is a fairly straightforward application of one of the worst features of the Military Commissions Act of 2006-- the elimination of habeas corpus rights for non-citizens within the United States when the government chooses to brand them enemy combatants. [read post]
13 Nov 2006, 12:51 pm
It does not suspend the writ of habeas corpus, the Department contended; it simply replaces it with a review process in the D.C. [read post]
13 Nov 2006, 11:25 am
It won't be long until a writ of habeas corpus is filed in the case. [read post]
11 Nov 2006, 6:29 am
Central Command in charge of all military operations in Iraq, Thus, Munaf's lawyers contended, "the Executive cannot escape its legal duties to its citizens by acting in concert with its allies, and cannot replace the writ of habeas corpus with a U.N. [read post]
8 Nov 2006, 9:28 pm
" (The ellipsis is Lehman's - I can't find the original on the net.)In Paul de Man's case, it's also easy to say that his devotion to deconstructionism was a way to evade responsibility for his Nazi past. [read post]
8 Nov 2006, 3:56 pm
Other notable examples include President Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus, Franklin Roosevelt's internment of Americans of Japanese ancestry, Truman's seizure of the nation's steel mills, Nixon's wiretappings, press injunctions, and assertions of executive privilege; all without congressional authority. [read post]
8 Nov 2006, 1:40 pm
And in closing arguments, according to the writ of habeas corpus seeking Mr. [read post]
7 Nov 2006, 3:55 pm
LINKConcerned that some lawyers who represent death row inmates in state habeas corpus proceedings may be filing writs that aren't up to standards, State Bar of Texas President Martha Dickie has appointed an 11-member Task Force on Habeas Counsel Training and Qualifications. [read post]
30 Oct 2006, 8:51 pm
It is also interesting to note that the Constitution unequivocally requires "voting jointly" when Congress wants to revoke a declaration of martial law or a suspension of the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus (Sec. 18, Art. [read post]
30 Oct 2006, 6:48 am
But in the main that’s not a new problem, it’s a very old one — one today that it is exacerbated by the attack on habeas corpus, and the administration’s legal claims that it can jail any of us, any time, for as long as it wants — not to mention the administration’s claim that it has the legal right to kill us. [read post]
29 Oct 2006, 9:38 am
Wilkinson lifted 90 percent of the arguments in his writ of habeas corpus from a letter that Acker wrote from death row. [read post]
28 Oct 2006, 9:06 pm
But habeas corpus, war, torture and basic fiscal responsibility are the issues now. [read post]
24 Oct 2006, 6:17 am
The provision which immunizes this awful conduct, you know, did not receive nearly as much media coverage in advance as did the habeas corpus and military tribunal provisions of the bill. [read post]
23 Oct 2006, 7:16 pm
In my twenty-seven years as a federal judge, I have participated in the disposition of appeals or habeas petitions in scores of capital cases. [read post]
23 Oct 2006, 5:05 am
In Ex parte Gonzales, they addressed a writ of habeas corpus filed by a death row inmate based on ineffective assistance of counsel. [read post]
