Contributions

  • Chesney, Robert - Contributor
  • Benhalim, Rabea - Contributor
  • Brookings Institution. Governance Studies - Contributor
  • Brookings Institution. Governance Studies Program - Contributor

Publication

2010 - Governance Studies at Brookings, Washington, DC, District of Columbia

Language

English

Word Count

26,500 words, Guess

Page Count

106 pages

Physical Format

Electronic resource

Identifiers

Classifications

  • LCCKF9011

Alternate Titles

  • Guantánamo habeas cases as lawmaking.

Description

"President Obama's decision not to seek additional legislative authority for detentions at Guántanamo Bay, Cuba--combined with Congress's lack of interest in the task--means that, for good or for ill, judges must write the rules governing military detention of terrorist suspects. As the United States reaches the president's self-imposed January 22, 2010 deadline for Guantanamo's closure with the base still holding nearly 200 detainees, the common-law process of litigating their habeas corpus lawsuits has emerged as the chief legislative mechanism for doing so."--Exec. summary (p.1).

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