Guantanamo Follies
Georgetown Law Professor Neal Katyal has an essay up at Slate today called Gitmo' Better Blues: The folly of the new Guantanamo trials.
These military charges are unconstitutional, inconsistent with international law, and unwise....They will demonstrate what critics of the military tribunals have been saying all along: that the administration has sought to create an end run around guarantees of fundamental rights enshrined in our Constitution and universally accepted agreements such as the Geneva Conventions.
Katyal is also chief counsel to the military defense lawyers in the Guantanamo case pending at the U.S. Supreme Court. [link via How Appealing.]
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