Commentary: The strange case of Al-Ghizzawi

Commentary Eleven days after the Supreme Court in 2008 established a constitutional right for Guantanamo Bay detainees to challenge their captivity in U.S. courts, the Justices told the lawyer for an Afghan prisoner to go ahead with such a plea “in an appropriate district court.”  The attorney for Abdul Hamid Salam Al-Ghizzawi did so.  But now, … Continue reading Commentary: The strange case of Al-Ghizzawi