2008.10.07 - PEGC Update
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1) THE UIGHURS

"Because the Constitution prohibits indefinite detention without cause, the Government's continued detention of Petitioners is unlawful. Furthermore, because separation-of-powers concerns do not trump the very principle upon which this nation was founded, the unalienable right to liberty, the Court orders the Government to release the Petitioners into the United States."

-- Hon. Ricardo M. Urbina, U.S. District Judge, ruling from the bench.


USDC D.D.C. --

KIYEMBA v. BUSH. No. 05-1509 (RMU)

October 7, 2008
MOTIONS / STATUS HEARING - UIGHURS CASES (full transcript)

http://www.pegc.us/archive/In_re_Gitmo_II/hearing_RMU_20071007.pdf


USCA D.C. Circuit --

IN RE GUANTANAMO DETAINEE CASES (Kiyemba, et al)

October 7, 2008
[GOVERNMENT'S] EMERGENCY MOTION FOR STAY

http://www.pegc.us/archive/In_re_Gitmo_II/CAD_gov_em_mot_20081007.pdf


SCOTUSblog --

October 7th, 2008
U.S. ASKS CIRCUIT COURT FOR SPEED ON UIGHURS
by Lyle Denniston

http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/us-asks-circuit-court-for-speed-on-uighurs/

October 7th, 2008
JUDGE ORDERS UIGHURS TO U.S.; GOVERNMENT APPEALS
by Ben Winograd

http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/federal-judge-orders-uighurs-in-us-by-friday/


2) NEW BOOKS

* ANGLER
THE CHENEY VICE PRESIDENCY
by Barton Gellman

Penguin / Hardcover / 384 pages / ISBN 9781594201868 / 16 Sep 2008

http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9781594201868,00.html?Angler_Bart_Gellman

http://www.bartongellman.com/


* THE CONSTITUTION AND 9/11
RECURRING THREATS TO AMERICA’S FREEDOMS
by Louis Fisher

Kansas U. / September 2008 / 384 pages

Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-1600-8, $45.00
Paper ISBN 978-0-7006-1601-5, $19.95

http://www.kansaspress.ku.edu/fis911.html


* THE CHALLENGE:
HAMDAN V. RUMSFELD AND THE FIGHT OVER PRESIDENTIAL POWER
by Jonathan Mahler

Farrar, Straus and Giroux / August 2008 / ISBN: 978-0-374-22320-5 / 352 pages

http://us.macmillan.com/thechallenge-1


* COLLATERAL DAMAGE:
AMERICA'S WAR AGAINST IRAQI CIVILIANS
by Chris Hedges, Laila Al-Arian

Nation Books / Hardcover / 160 pages / June 2, 2008 / ISBN-10: 1568583737

http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174939/chris_hedges_war_and_occupation_american_style



3) OP-ED

PEGC Blog --

October 5, 2008
18 USC 2441
by Charles Gittings

http://pegc.blogspot.com/2008/10/18-usc-2441.html

September 29, 2008
BOUMEDIENE AND 28 USC 2241(e)(2)
by Charles Gittings

http://pegc.blogspot.com/2008/09/boumediene-and-28-usc-2241e2.html

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