Download or read book Rasul V Bush 2004 written by United States. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rasul V Bush 2004 written by Shafiq Rasul and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rasul Versus Bush 2004 written by Shafiq Rasul and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Landmark Briefs and Arguments of the Supreme Court of the United States written by Gerhard Casper and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guantanamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power written by Joseph Margulies and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-07-03 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weaving together firsthand accounts of military personnel who witnessed the interrogations with the words of the prisoners themselves, Margulies exposes the chilling reality of Guantanamo Bay.
Download or read book Habeas Corpus written by Paul D. Halliday and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-02 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We call habeas corpus the Great Writ of Liberty. But it was actually a writ of power. In a work based on an unprecedented study of thousands of cases across more than five hundred years, Paul Halliday provides a sweeping revisionist account of the world's most revered legal device. In the decades around 1600, English judges used ideas about royal power to empower themselves to protect the king's subjects. The key was not the prisoner's "right" to "liberty"Ñthese are modern idiomsÑbut the possible wrongs committed by a jailer or anyone who ordered a prisoner detained. This focus on wrongs gave the writ the force necessary to protect ideas about rights as they developed outside of law. This judicial power carried the writ across the world, from Quebec to Bengal. Paradoxically, the representative impulse, most often expressed through legislative action, did more to undermine the writ than anything else. And the need to control imperial subjects would increasingly constrain judges. The imperial experience is thus crucial for making sense of the broader sweep of the writ's history and of English law. Halliday's work informed the 2008 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Boumediene v. Bush on prisoners in the Guantnamo detention camps. His eagerly anticipated book is certain to be acclaimed the definitive history of habeas corpus.
Download or read book Bush the Detainees and the Constitution written by Howard Ball and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on the recent "Enemy Combatant Cases" to provide a stern critique of the legal and constitutional basis for the enormous expansion of presidential power during the Bush administration's "War on Terror," and the challenges (especially in the Supreme Court) that such expansion has inspired.
Download or read book The Law of Habeas Corpus written by Judith Farbey and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-24 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Habeas corpus is the principal means under the common law for the protection of personal liberty. By this ancient writ, the court assumes control over the body of a prisoner so it can discharge him or her to freedom if no proper legal cause can be shown for detention. Habeas corpus secures release from any form of custody, whether decreed by the highest powers of the state or the lowest gangland slave-trader. Its reach is as diverse as the forms of confinement. For just two examples beyond the prison wall, a patient wrongly detained for compulsory medical treatment can invoke its protection and it can even be deployed to determine the proper parental custody of a child. This volume looks first at the historical development of the writ, tracing its growth in significance until its emergence as an item of central constitutional importance. Having established the traditional place of habeas corpus, the volume goes on to examine the limits of the remedy today. It describes the modern workings of the application for habeas corpus and assesses the scope, function, and role of the procedure. It explores the relationship between habeas corpus and fundamental rights. The volume critically surveys the nature of judicial review on habeas corpus and investigates past, present, and potential future uses of the writ. It aims to provide a comprehensive statement of current English law, with added discussion of the position in other Commonwealth countries. The volume concludes with a guide to procedure and sample forms.
Download or read book Guantanamo written by Michael Ratner and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba and the people being held there by the United States.
Download or read book Rasul V Bush 2004 written by United States. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Federal Habeas Corpus written by Charles Doyle and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Federal habeas corpus is a procedure under which a federal court may review the legality of an individual's incarceration. It is most often the stage of the criminal appellate process that follows direct appeal and any available state collateral review. The law in the area is an intricate weave of statute and case law. Current federal law operates under the premise that with rare exceptions prisoners challenging the legality of the procedures by which they were tried or sentenced get "one bite of the apple." Relief for state prisoners is only available if the state courts have ignored or rejected their valid claims, and there are strict time limits within which they may petition the federal courts for relief. Moreover, a prisoner relying upon a novel interpretation of law must succeed on direct appeal; federal habeas review may not be used to establish or claim the benefits of a "new rule." Expedited federal habeas procedures are available in the case of state death row inmates if the state has provided an approved level of appointed counsel. The Supreme Court has held that Congress enjoys considerable authority to limit, but not to extinguish, access to the writ. This report is available in an abridged version as CRS Report RS22432, "Federal Habeas Corpus: An Abridged Sketch," by Charles Doyle.
Download or read book Magna Carta written by Randy James Holland and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative two volume dictionary covering English law from earliest times up to the present day, giving a definition and an explanation of every legal term old and new. Provides detailed statements of legal terms as well as their historical context.
Download or read book Treatment Of written by Jennifer Elsea and published by International Law & Taxation Pub. This book was released on 2004-12-01 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After earlier criticism from human rights organizations and many foreign governments regarding the determination that the Geneva Conventions of 1949 do not apply to the detainees held in Cuba, President Bush shifted position with an announcement that Taliban fighters are covered by the 1949 Geneva Conventions, while Al Qaeda fighters are not. Taliban fighters are not being treated as prisoners of war (POW), however, because they reportedly fail to meet international standards as lawful combatants The Bush Administration has deemed all of the detainees to be "unlawful combatants," who may, according to Administration officials, be held indefinitely without trial or even despite their eventual acquittal by a military tribunal. Six of the Detainees have been designated as subject to the President's Military Order of Nov. 13, 2001, making them eligible for trial by military commission, although none has yet been charged. While earlier reports that the detainees were being treated inhumanely appear to be unfounded, some allied countries and human rights organizations are criticizing the President's decision as relying on an inaccurate interpretation of the Geneva Convention for the Treatment of Prisoners of War (GPW). The U.N. High Commissioner on Human Rights (UNHCR) and some human rights organizations argue that all combatants captured on the battlefield are entitled to be treated as POWs until an independent tribunal has determined otherwise. The Geneva Conventions of 1949 create a comprehensive legal regime for the treatment of detainees in an armed conflict. Members of a regular armed force and certain others, including militias and volunteer corps serving as part of the armed forces, are entitled to specific privileges as POWs. Members of volunteer corps, militias, and organized resistence forces that are not part of the armed services of a party to the conflict are entitled to POW status if they meet four criteria specified in the treaty. Groups that do not meet the standards are not entitled to POW status, and their members who commit belligerent acts may be treated as civilians under the Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War (Ge. These "unprivileged" or "unlawful combatants" are not accorded immunity for their hostile acts. This report provides an overview of the law of war and the historical treatment of wartime detainees, in particular the United States' practice for determining their status, and describes how the detainees' status might affect their rights and treatment. The report also reviews the current status of petitions for habeas corpus filed on behalf of detainees held at Guantanamo Bay Naval Station. The report concludes with a discussion of Congress' role and legislative proposals related to detention in connection with the war against terrorism, including H.R. 1290, H.R. 1029 and title I, subtitle C of S. 22.
Download or read book Power Play written by James P. Pfiffner and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passionate book, he focuses on the constitutional implications of expanded presidential power and why American citizens should care.
Download or read book The Terror Presidency Law and Judgment Inside the Bush Administration written by Jack Goldsmith and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009-03-24 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A key advisor to President Bush recounts his political clashes with powerful administration figures when he questioned the choices of his predecessors about the way the war on terror was being conducted, in an account in which he cites historical parallels.
Download or read book Treatment of Battlefield Detainees in the War on Terrorism written by American Law Division, Jennifer K., Jennifer Elsea, Legislative Attorney, American Law Division and published by . This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In June 2004, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Rasul v. Bush that U.S. Courts have jurisdiction to hear challenges on behalf of persons detained at the U.S. Naval Station in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in connection with the war against terrorism. The Court overturned a ruling that no U.S. court has jurisdiction to hear petitions for habeas corpus on behalf of the detainees because they are aliens detained abroad, but left questions involving prisoners' rights and status unanswered.
Download or read book The Dark Side written by Jane Mayer and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2009-05-08 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dark Side is a dramatic, riveting, and definitive narrative account of how the United States made self-destructive decisions in the pursuit of terrorists around the world—decisions that not only violated the Constitution, but also hampered the pursuit of Al Qaeda. In spellbinding detail, Jane Mayer relates the impact of these decisions by which key players, namely Vice President Dick Cheney and his powerful, secretive adviser David Addington, exploited September 11 to further a long held agenda to enhance presidential powers to a degree never known in U.S. history, and obliterate Constitutional protections that define the very essence of the American experiment. With a new afterward. One of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year National Bestseller National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist A Best Book of the Year: Salon, Slate, The Economist, The Washington Post, Cleveland Plain-Dealer
