By Gabe Rottman, Legislative Counsel, ACLU Washington Legislative Office at 2:17pm
Rosa Brooks, Georgetown law professor and LA Times columnist extraordinaire, unpacks the Khadr/Hamdan dismissals today in an op-ed (incidentally, fun fact: most folks think op-ed stands for "opinion-editorial" when it actually means "opposit
By Gabe Rottman, Legislative Counsel, ACLU Washington Legislative Office at 3:48pm
Aside from the controversy about the 385 or so detainees that the government admits to holding at Guantanamo Bay, there's a whole other issue about the secret "black site" prisons, which hold almost forty secret detainees, according to a report released by several human rights groups today.
Three of the groups---Amnesty International, the Center for Constitutional
By Gabe Rottman, Legislative Counsel, ACLU Washington Legislative Office at 11:09am
And this is actually "breaking news," not CNN-style "breaking news," where the story broke a week ago. The Senate Judiciary Committee just voted for the Specter/Leahy habeas restoration bill. The committee sent it to the floor with no amendments, no debate and on almost a party line vote (with the GOP sponsor, Senator Arlen Specter from Pennsylvania voting
By Gabe Rottman, Legislative Counsel, ACLU Washington Legislative Office at 10:05pm
From the mountains, to the prairies… Habeas is showing up everywhere. All across America, people are writing to tell us that they have seen Habeas. The latest is from Mr. and Mrs. Matthew McClusky in Fargo, North Dakota:
Dear FindHabeas.com,
Carol and I stumbled across your Web site after friends emailed us about the save
By Gabe Rottman, Legislative Counsel, ACLU Washington Legislative Office at 6:54pm
So, tomorrow morning, the Senate Judiciary Committee will markup (that is, possibly amend and send to the full Senate) a bill to restore habeas rights for the Gitmo detainees. It's a short one. Here's the meat of S. 185, introduced by Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Penn., and cosponsored by Sen. Pat Leahy from Vermont, chair of the Judiciary Committe
By Gabe Rottman, Legislative Counsel, ACLU Washington Legislative Office at 2:21pm
Dahlia Lithwick at Slate has this insightful look at the Khadr/Hamdan dismissals:
By far, the most stunning aspect of the dismissed charges against Omar Khadr and Salim Ahmed Hamdan—the only two Guantanamo detainees staring down the barrel of a military trial—was that the two military judges in t
