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Earlier this week, Georgetown University announced the outstanding appointment of William Treanor as the new Dean of the Georgetown University Law Center. From the GU website:
Georgetown has named William Treanor as its new executive vice president and dean of the Law Center, effective Aug. 16.
Treanor joins the Law Center from Fordham University, where he has served as dean of Fordham …

In a 6-3 decision, in Holder v.  Humanitarian Law Project, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the relevant prohibitions on providing “material support” to terrorist organizations are constitutional. The full opinion can be found here.  Analysis to follow.

A previous post embedded a video from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart in which Stewart opines on the temptations of power. Above is a video from Coldplay for the song “Viva la Vida.” In the lyrics, they too reflect on the dilemma of power. What would Lord Acton say?
Viva La Vida
I used to rule the world
Seas would rise when …

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While I do believe that the Obama Administration has actually taken a  different approach to presidential authority than the Bush Administration, Jon Stewart has a point.

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In case you missed it, Professor Dawn Johnsen had an op ed in Friday’s Washington Post commenting on her failed nomination to be Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel. Johnsen writes:
In 2004, the leak of a controversial memo on the use of torture catapulted the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel into the spotlight. Fallout and debate …

Sixteen retired federal judges issued a report today under the sponsorship of Human Rights First and The Constitution Project. The report, titled Habeas Works: Federal Courts’ Proven Capacity to Handle Guantánamo Cases, presents the argument against a new indefinite detention law. From the Executive Summary:
Habeas is working. The judges of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia have …

In case you missed this . . .yesterday, a three-judge panel of the DC Circuit Court of Appeals reversed District Judge John Bates’s ruling on the right of detainees held at Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan to file a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The opinion of the court in Fadi Maqaleh v. Robert Gates can be found …

The AP reports:
The Supreme Court has ruled that teenagers may not be locked up for life without chance of parole if they haven’t killed anyone.
By a 5-4 vote Monday, the court says the Constitution requires that young people serving life sentences must at least be considered for release.
The court ruled in the case of Terrance Graham, who was implicated in …