New brief due on abuse photos
on Oct 29, 2009 at 5:26 pm
U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan notified the Supreme Court on Thursday that the government will be filing a new brief, probably next week, to discuss the impact of new legislation on a pending dispute over the public release of scores of photos showing torture or other abuse of detainees by U.S. military personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan. The letter is here. The Court has been scheduled to consider the government’s appeal — Defense Department v. American Civil Liberties Union (09-160) – at Friday’s private Conference. President Obama on Wednesday signed into law a new funding bill that gives the Pentagon authority to withhold release of those photos.
