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Terror Tribunals: If President Bush prevails, oppressive "Star Chamber" courts of the past could take on new life as unaccountable military tribunals. (On the Home Front).
Former Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork is unique among defenders of President Bush's controversial plan to try accused terrorists before special military tribunals. Most defenders of the president's proposal have emphasized that it limits the use of such tribunals to the trial of foreign nationals accused of being associated with the al-Qaeda terrorist network. Judge Bork, however, points out that the proposed terrorism tribunals could be given the power to try American citizens as well; in fact, he criticizes Bush for not giving them that power right away.
"If there is a problem with Bush's order," writes Bork in National Review, "it is the exemption of U.S. ...
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- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor November 8, 2005 700+ words
...commission process. The Supreme Court has been willing...dispute to landmark Supreme Court case upholding the...Lincoln to rely on military tribunals to quickly and efficiently...Milligan, an 1866 Supreme Court decision. Lawyers...
- Military tribunals in the United States: Mark Weisenmiller shows how the fate...
- Magazine article from: History Today Weisenmiller, Mark April 1, 2002 700+ words
...Qaida and Taliban soldiers in custody facing judgement from military tribunals. Attorney-General Ashcroft has based his legal arguments...confinement at Guantanamo Bay on a past decision by the US Supreme Court. Ex parte Quirin 317 US 1 (1942) is the formal title...
- Senate panel questions constitutionality of military tribunals.(The Dallas...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Mittelstadt, Michelle November 28, 2001 700+ words
...hearings focusing on the military tribunals are planned. While...That these tools _ military tribunals, detainee-attorney...noting that the Supreme Court previously has upheld the use of military tribunals. The issue appeared...
- Military Tribunals and Presidential Power: American Revolution to the War on...
- Magazine article from: Presidential Studies Quarterly Wheeler, Darren A. December 1, 2006 700+ words
...While the Supreme Court's recent...Fisher's Military Tribunals and Presidential...recent use of military tribunals, such criticism...The U.S. Supreme Court's decision...struck down the military tribunals designed by...
- Congress scurries to create legislation for military tribunals.
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) June 30, 2006 700+ words
...creation of military tribunals, following a Supreme Court decision...whether the military tribunals that the...guidelines the Supreme Court set," he...Thursday's Supreme Court ruling...the use of military tribunals to consider...
- President Bush's military order establishing military tribunals to try...
- Magazine article from: Florida Bar Journal Pedata, Martin A. November 1, 2002 700+ words
...Forces to establish military tribunals to try and punish those...the power to create military tribunals. (8) In fact, the Supreme Court has already ruled...Authorize Creation of Military Tribunals President Bush's military...
- Justice Can't Be Done in Secret : WHY PUBLIC AND PRESS HAVE A RIGHT TO WITNESS...
- Magazine article from: The Nation Klaris, Edward J. June 10, 2002 700+ words
...But even if military tribunals are used to...information. Military tribunals have been...and the Supreme Court during the...war. Those Supreme Court cases...proceedings in military tribunals. Public criminal...
- Having Their Day in (a Military) Court : How best to prosecute...
- Magazine article from: National Review Bork, Robert H. December 17, 2001 700+ words
...order creating military tribunals to try suspected...of evils; but military tribunals are not, as they...be irrelevant if military tribunals were of dubious...issue reached the Supreme Court in Ex parte Quirin...
Source: HighBeam Research, Terror Tribunals: If President Bush prevails, oppressive "Star...