Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, No. 05-184 (U.S. Supreme Court) (548 U.S. 557; 126 S.Ct. 2749) (June 29, 2006) (Justice Stevens)
This lengthy and complex decision deals with the President’s war powers in general and, more specifically, his legal authority to establish unilaterally the military commissions designed to try at least some of the alleged terrorists seized in America’s war on terror. In that sense, the Court’s decision (herein sometimes referred ...
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