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Yale Law Journal

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 257-278

  Fiss, Owen ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 36849081017     PISSN: 00440094     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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References (66)

1. Authorization for Use of Military Force, 50 U.S.C. § 1541 (Supp. 1 2001).
2. U.S. CONST, amend. XIV, § 1.
3. See El-Masri v. United States, 479 F.3d 296, 303-04, 313 (4th Cir. 2007);
4. Arar v. Ashcroft, 414 F. Supp. 2d 250, 281-83, 287 (E.D.N.Y. 2006).
5. Memorandum from the U.S. Dep't of Justice Office of Legal Counsel to Alberto R. Gonzales, Counsel to the President (Aug. 1, 2002), http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp -srv/nation/documents/ dojinterrogationmemo20020801.pdf.
6. Memorandum from William J. Haynes II, Gen. Counsel of the Dep't of Def., to the Sec'y of Def. (Nov. 27, 2002), http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/ NSAEBB127/02.12.02.pdf. A federal criminal statute implementing the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment,
7. see 18 U.S.C. § 2340 (2000), specifically provides that torture indudes the mental anguish caused by the threat of imminent death.
8. See also Evan Wallach, Drop by Drop: Forgetting the History of Water Torture in U.S. Courts, 45 COLUM. J. TRANSNAT'L L. 468 (2007).
9. Memorandum from Daniel Levin, Acting Assistant Att'y Gen., to James B. Comey, Deputy Att'y Gen. (Dec. 30, 2004), http://www.usdoj.gov/olc/ 18usc23402340a2.htm, superseding Memorandum from the U.S. Dep't of Justice Office of Legal Counsel to Alberto R Gonzales, Counsel to the President, supra note 4.
10. Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 § 1003, 42 U.S.C.A. § 2000dd (West Supp. 2007).
11. President's Statement on Signing the Department of Defense, Emergency Supplemental Appropriations to Address Hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, and Pandemic Influenza Aa, 2006, 41 WEEKLY COMP. PRES. DOC. 1918 (Dec. 30, 2005), available at http://www.white house.gov/news/rdeases/2005/12/20051230-8.html.
12. Katz v. United States, 389 U.S. 347 (1967).
13. Id. at 358 n.23.
14. United States v. U.S. Dist. Court (Keith), 407 U.S. 297, 320 (1972).
15. Id. at 308-09.
16. 50 U.S.C. §§ 1801-1811 (2000).
17. Letter from Alberto Gonzales, Att'y Gen., to Senator William Frist (Jan. 19, 2006), available at http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/nsa/ dojnsa11906ltr.pdf;
18. see also U.S. DEP'T OF JUSTICE, LEGAL AUTHORITIES SUPPORTING THE ACTIVITIES OF THE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY DESCRIBED BY THE PRESIDENT (2006), http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/whitepaper onnsalegalauthorities.pdf.
19. Am. Civil Liberties Union v. Nat'l Sec. Agency, 438 F. Supp. 2d 754 (E.D. Mich. 2006) (mem.), vacated, 493 F.3d 644 (6th Cir. 2007).
20. Letter from Alberto Gonzales, Att'y Gen., to Senators Patrick Leahy and Arlen Specter (Jan. 17, 2007), http://graphics8.nytimes.com/pacleages/pdf/ politics/20060117gonzales_Letter.pdf.
21. Am. Civil Liberties Union v. Nat'l Sec. Agency, 493 F.3d 644 (6th Cir. 2007).
22. Protect America Act of 2007, Pub. L. No. 110-55, § 2,121 Stat. 552 (2007) (to be codified in scattered sections of 50 U.S.C).
23. Ex Parte Quirin, 317 U.S. 1, 30-31 (1942);
24. see also Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, 542 U.S. 507, 520 (2004).
25. Military Order of November 13, 2001, 66 Fed. Reg. 57,833 (Nov. 16, 2001);
26. see also Press Rdease, White House, Fact Sheet: Status of Detainees at Guantanamo (Feb. 7, 2002), http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/ 2002/02/20020207-13.html;
27. Memorandum from the President to the Vice President et al. (Feb. 7, 2002), http://www.Washington post.com/wp-srv/nation/documents/020702bush.pdf.
28. Exparte Quirin, 317 U.S. at 30-36.
29. United States v. Lindh, 212 F. Supp. 2d 541, 557-58 (E.D. Va. 2002) ;
30. see also Owen Fiss, In the Shadow of War, 58 U. MIAMI L. REV. 449,467-68 (2003).
31. Al Odah v. United States, 321 F.3d 1134, 1141 (D.C Cir. 2003), rev'd sub nom. Rasul v. Bush, 542 U.S. 466 (2004).
32. 542 U.S. 466 (2004).
33. Detainee Treatment Act of 2005, Pub. L. No. 109-148, § 1005(e)(1), 119 Stat. 2739, 2742 (to be codified at 28 U.S.C. § 2241(e)).
34. Al-Marri v. Wright, 487 F.3d 160 (4th Cir. 2007), reh'g granted, No. 06-7427 (4th Cir. Aug. 22, 2007).
35. Rumsfeld v. Padilla, 542 U.S. 426 (2004).
36. Padilla v. Hanft, 547 U.S. 1062 (2006).
37. In August 2007, Padilla was convicted of conspiracy to commit murder and of conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists. See Peter Whoriskey, Jury Convicts Jose Padilla of Terror Charges, WASH. POST, Aug. 17, 2007, at A1.
38. Memorandum from Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Sec'y of Def., to the Sec'y of the Navy (July 7, 2004), available at http://www.defensdinle.mil/news/ Jul2004/d20040707review.pdf.
39. Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 S 1005(e)(3), 10 U.S.CA. § 801 note (West Supp. 2007). The adequacy of the procedures of these status review tribunals is now under review by the Court of Appeals.
40. See Bismullah v. Gates, Nos. 06-1197, 06-1397, 2007 WL 2067938 (D.C. Cir. July 20, 2007).
41. 126 S. Ct. 2749 (2006).
42. Id. at 2785.
43. Id. at 2792-93.
44. Id. at 2756 (quoting 10 U.S.C. § 836(b) (2000)).
45. Id. at 2786.
46. Military Commissions Act of 2006, Pub. L. No. 109-366, 120 Stat. 2600 (2006) (to be codified in scattered seaions of 10, 18, 28, and 42 U.S.C).
47. Boumediene v. Bush, 476 F.3d 981 (D.C. Cir. 2007), cert, granted, 27 S. Ct. 3078 (2007).
48. Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, 542 U.S. 507 (2004).
49. Id. at 536 (opinion of O'Connor, J.).
50. Id. at 533.
51. Id. at 533-34.
52. See Owen Fiss, The War Against Terrorism and the Rule of Law, 26 OXFORD J. LEGAL STUD. 235, 243-44 (2006).
53. Aharon Barak, Consitutional Law Without a Constitution: The Role of the Judiciary, in THE ROLE OF COURTS IN SOCIETY 448 (Shimon Shetreet ed., 1988).
54. CA 6821/93, 1908/94, 3363/94 United Mizrachi Bank v. Migdal Coop. Vill. [1995] IsrSC 49(4) 221, translated in 31 ISR. L. REV. 764, 777-94 (1997).
55. See Yuval Yoaz, Friedmann Seeks New Version of "Intifada Law," Bypassing Court, HAARETZ (Tel Aviv), June 5, 2007, http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/867274.html.
56. HCJ 5100/94 Pub. Comm. Against Torture in Isr. v. Israd [Sept. 6, 1999] slip op., available at http://dyon1.court.gov.il/files_eng/94/000/051/ a09/940 51000.a09.pdf.
57. HCJ 769/02 Pub. Comm. Against Torture in Isr. v. Gov't of Isr. [Dec. 11, 2006] slip op. para. 22 (quoting HCJ 7957/04 Mara'abe v. Prime Minister [2005] para. 29), available at http://dyon1.court.gov.il/files_eng/02/690/007/ a34/02007690.a34.pdf.
58. HCJ 2056/04 Beit Sourile Vill. Council v. Israel [June 30, 2004] slip op., available at http://dyon1.court.gov.il/files_eng/04/560/020/a28/ 04020560.a28.pdf.
59. HCJ 769/02 Pub. Comm. Against Torture in Isr. v. Gov't of Isr. [Dec. 11, 2006] slip op., available at http://dyon1.court.gov.il/files_eng/02/690/ 007/a34/02007690.a34.pdf.
60. See United States v. U.S. Dist. Court (Keith), 407 U.S. 297,308-09 (1972).
61. See AHARON BARAK, THE JUDGE IN A DEMOCRACY 256-57 (2006).
62. HCJ 769/02 Pub. Comm. Against Torture in Isr. v. Gov't of Isr. [Dec. 11, 2006] slip op. para. 40, available at http://dyon1.court.gov.il/ files_eng/02/690/007/a34/02007690.a34.pdf.
63. Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214 (1944).
64. See, e.g., Parents Involved in Cmty. Sch. v. Seattle Sch. Dist. No. 1, 127 S. Ct. 2738, 2819 (2007) (Breyer, J., dissenting);
65. Nixon v. Shrink Mo. Gov't PAC, 528 U.S. 377, 401-02 (2000) (Breyer, J., concurring).
66. See, e.g., BARAK, supra note 52, at 309.