Every post published in December 2005, most recent first.
The legal defense team for Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen designated an “enemy combatant” in the war on terrorism, on Friday afternoon urged the Supreme Court to order his release from a Navy jail, but not until it first considers his appeal at a private Conference on Jan. 13.
C-SPAN3 HISTORY – Supreme Court Confirmation Archives December 27-January 8 The confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito are scheduled to begin January 9th.
The Supreme Court is now scheduled to consider the appeal by terrorism suspect Jose Padilla at its Conference on Friday, Jan. 13. The distribution was reported Wednesday on the Court’s electronic docket.
On Balkinization law professor Sandy Levinson has this post on Alito and executive power. PrawfsBlawg has this post on the relationship between Padilla’s case and the companion case to Korematsu, Ex parte Endo.
Should an elected judge, who accepts large campaign donations, sit on a case that directly affects the financial or business interests of the donors and their associates?
The Bush Administration, protesting that the Fourth Circuit Court has engaged in an “unprecedented and unfounded assertion of judicial authority,” on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to order the prompt transfer of terrorism suspect Jose Padilla out of military custody and into a regular federal prison.
Sentencing Law & Policy has this post discussing this New York Times article on Judge Alito and criminal justice issues from his tenure on the 3rd Circuit.
Attorneys for terrorism suspect Jose Padilla put before the Supreme Court Tuesday a full account of the shifting strategy of the Bush Administration in dealing with Padilla, seeking to persuade the Justices that the government is blatantly attempting to manipulate the courts to gain more power in the war on terrorism.
The legal defense team for Salim Ahmed Hamdan, concerned that the Bush Administration might try to scuttle his pending Supreme Court appeal challenging a trial before a war crimes tribunal, this week asked the Court to take steps to assure that the case goes to a final ruling.
The final congressional measure narrowing the legal rights of foreign nationals detained in the war on terrorism is a complex set of interrelated provisions.