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Comment RSSScott Horton over at The Daily Beast reports:
In a dramatic turn in Madrid this morning, Spain’s attorney general has stepped into the case involving former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and five former senior Bush administration lawyers, overruling the decision of career prosecutors to adopt a criminal complaint against them and to proceed with an investigation. But this does not …
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April 16, 2009 # 2:45 pm # Armed Conflict, Human Rights, International Law # No CommentJustice Department challenges habeas rights for Bagram detainees
April 11, 2009 # 12:43 pm # Armed Conflict, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, International Law, Supreme Court # No CommentAs is now quite well known, on April 2nd, Federal District Judge John D. Bates issued a landmark opinion on the scope of habeas corpus in Maqaleh v. Gates. Faced with the question of whether the right of habeas should be extended to four persons detained by the United States at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan, Bates ruled that three out …
Breaking News: US warship approaching pirate vessel
April 9, 2009 # 2:08 am # Armed Conflict, Foreign Policy, International Law # No CommentCNN is reporting:
A U.S. warship arrived before dawn Thursday near a 28-foot lifeboat holding four pirates and the kidnapped captain of a U.S.-flagged cargo ship, officials said.
Also nearby was the Maersk Alabama — which had been seized early Wednesday off the Horn of Africa. All 20 of its remaining crew members were in good physical shape, said Ken Quinn, second …
Bainbridge on the problem of universal jurisiction
April 6, 2009 # 2:19 pm # Armed Conflict, Human Rights, International Law # No CommentA previous post discussed the recent decision by the Spanish national security court to investigate several former Bush Administration lawyers. My good friend and UCLA Law legend, Steve Bainbridge, has some cautionary words on the application of the principle of universal jurisdiction. Universal jurisdiction, it will be recalled, is a principle of international law that allows a state to exercise …
North Korea launches missile, Obama responds
April 4, 2009 # 11:29 pm # Armed Conflict, Foreign Policy, Intelligence, International Law, International Organizations # 3 CommentsThe New York Times is reporting:
North Korea defied the United States, China and a series of United Nations resolutions by launching a rocket on Sunday that the country said was designed to propel a satellite into space, but that much of the world viewed as an effort to prove it is edging toward the capability to shoot a nuclear warhead …
Rep. Nadler introduces National Security Letters Reform Act
March 31, 2009 # 11:51 pm # Armed Conflict, Human Rights, International Law # No CommentFrom Rep. Nadler’s press release:
Congressman Jerrold Nadler (NY-08), Chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, along with Reps. Jeff Flake (AZ-06), William Delahunt (MA-10) and Ron Paul (TX-14), today reintroduced the National Security Letters Reform Act of 2009, a bipartisan bill designed to provide crucial checks against the overreaching and dangerous National Security …
Bush lawyers being investigated by Spanish national security court
March 28, 2009 # 2:59 pm # Armed Conflict, Human Rights, Intelligence, International Law, Supreme Court # One CommentMy dear friend Steve Bainbridge brings a very interesting development to my attention. Scott Horton writes in Harpers:
Spain’s national newspapers, El País and Público reported that the Spanish national security court has opened a criminal probe focusing on Bush Administration lawyers who pioneered the descent into torture at the prison in Guantánamo. The criminal complaint can be examined here. Público …
