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29 Sep 2007, 6:07 am
Blackwater security guards' killings of Iraqi civilians highlights a long-standing problem with private security contractors in Iraq - the "coalition of the billing," as P. [read post]
25 Sep 2007, 6:48 pm
But Quirin does not involve "mere" acts of unprivileged belligerency. [read post]
27 Mar 2007, 11:38 pm
Although the MCA purports to foreclose habeas review, the Supreme Court has long entertained such collateral challenges to military commissions, from the Civil War case ex parte Milligan through last summer's Hamdan decision. [read post]
21 Feb 2007, 9:39 am
The Court has, for example, entertained the habeas petitions of an American citizen who plotted an attack on military installations during the Civil War, Ex parte Milligan, 4 Wall. 2 (1866), and of admitted enemy aliens convicted of war crimes during a declared war and held in the United States, Ex parte Quirin, 317 U.S. 1 (1942), and its insular possessions, In re Yamashita, 327 U.S. 1 (1946). [read post]
20 Feb 2007, 10:00 am
It is the fact that the petitioners were enemy aliens - an undisputed fact - that is paramount in Eisentrager: The prisoners rely, however, upon two decisions of this Court to get them over the threshold -- Ex parte Quirin, 317 U.S. 1, and In re Yamashita, 327 U.S. 1. [read post]
13 Dec 2006, 4:09 pm
It is the fact that the petitioners were enemy aliens - an undisputed fact - that is paramount in Eisentrager: The prisoners rely, however, upon two decisions of this Court to get them over the threshold -- Ex parte Quirin, 317 U.S. 1, and In re Yamashita, 327 U.S. 1. [read post]
20 Apr 2006, 9:23 am
According to the US legal position, the status of enemy combatant is equivalent to that of an unlawful combatant which is, again according to the US legal position, a status in between combatants and civilians, giving the detainees neither the rights of an prisoner of war, who inter alia has to be released after the actual fighting ends, nor of a civilian, who has to be indicted for a criminal offence immediately (see for the US position the Supreme Court Case, Ex parte… [read post]
