2006.12.08 - PEGC Update
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1) HAMDAN v. RUMSFELD

SCOTUSblog --

December 8, 2006
GOVERNMENT WANTS HAMDAN CASE DISMISSED
By Lyle Denniston

http://www.scotusblog.com/movabletype/archives/2006/12/government_want.html


USDC D.D.C. --

HAMDAN v. RUMSFELD, No. 04-cv-1519 (JR)

December 8, 2006
[GOVERNMENT'S] REPLY IN SUPPORT OF MOTION TO
DISMISS FOR LACK OF SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTION

http://www.pegc.us/archive/Hamdan_v_Rumsfeld/gov_reply_20061208.pdf



2) GUANTANAMO BAY

Associated Press --

December 8, 2006
GUANTANAMO DETAINEES GOING TO NEW PRISON
By Michael Melia

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20061208/D8LSKE9O0.html


Los Angeles Times --

December 8, 2006
ISLAM ADVISOR CITES 'CALMER' GUANTANAMO
The Arab American, a layman, says prisoners' behavior has improved since he
began helping alter military practices.
By Carol J. Williams

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gitmoculture8dec08,0,5838900.story


Inter Press Service --

December 5, 2006
NEAR-TOTAL ISOLATION SOUGHT FOR GUANTANAMO
by William Fisher

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/1205-04.htm



3) PRESIDENTIAL POWERS

Legal Times --

December 4, 2006
PRESIDENT’S GAME?
History refutes claims of unlimited
presidential power over foreign affairs.
By Louis Fisher

http://www.pegc.us/archive/Articles/Fisher_LT_20061204.pdf


December 8, 2006
THE REAL PROBLEM WITH HAMDAN V. RUMSFELD
by Julian Ku

http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1165509275.shtml


* Julian Ku and John C. Yoo, HAMDAN v. RUMSFELD: THE FUNCTIONAL CASE FOR
FOREIGN AFFAIRS DEFERENCE TO THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH, Hofstra U. Legal Studies
Research Paper No. 06-32.

http://ssrn.com/abstract=945454



4) OP-ED

Balkinization --

December 8, 2006
A QUESTION FOR DECEMBER 7 
Remarks at the Wolfson Center, New School U., New York City
By Scott Horton

http://balkin.blogspot.com/2006/12/question-for-december-7.html


PEGC --

December 5, 2006
MY WORST MOMENT AS A LAWYER
Remarks at Newburyport, MA Amnesty International Meeting
By Sabin Willett

http://www.pegc.us/archive/Articles/willett_AI_20061205.pdf


Joseph Blocher, COMMENT: COMBATANT STATUS REVIEW TRIBUNALS:
FLAWED ANSWERS TO THE WRONG QUESTION, 116 Yale L.J. 667 (2006).

http://www.yalelawjournal.org/pdf/116-3/Blocher.pdf


TomDispatch --

December 8, 2006
IMPUNITY AND IMMUNITY
The Bush Administration Enters the Confessional
By Karen Greenberg

http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?emx=x&pid=146171

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