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Jonathan Shapiro on the Hamdan Case

BLANK Aug 29, 2008 In Jonathan Mahler's new book, George W. Bush emerges as the most lawless president in American history, the first to usurp the law as a matter of policy. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Hamdan Sentence Is a Snub to Prosecution

Staff / Truthdig Aug 8, 2008 Salim Hamdan, Osama bin Laden's former driver, has been sentenced by a military jury to five and a half years in prison -- most of which he's already served in detention. The prosecution wanted his sentence to be 30 years or longer, but it needn't be too upset: The military has said it can hold Hamdan indefinitely if it feels like it. Hamdan's lawyers are expected to appeal. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Improvisational Justice

Marie Cocco / Truthdig Jun 8, 2007 Now we've bungled our own kangaroo courts. Two military judges, acting separately in the cases of two alleged terrorists, have dismissed war crimes charges against both. The legal reasoning is technical. But this breakdown is no technicality -- it is farce. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Truthdigger of the Week: Lt. Cmdr. Charles Swift

Staff / Truthdig Dec 16, 2006 Truthdig tips its hat to the Navy lawyer who on Dec. 11 won a major ACLU award for his successful defense in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, the U.S. Supreme Court case that dashed Bush administration efforts to try terror suspects in special military courts. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Bush, Infallible to His Sycophants

Staff / Truthdig Jul 12, 2006 Testifying before Congress yesterday, the Justice Department's top lawyer had a succinct answer to a question posed by a senator about whether Bush was wrong or right in his interpretation of the Supreme Court's Hamdan case: "The President is always right." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )