Just a few years ago, the national debate over the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, indefinite detention, secret renditions and other legal elements of the Bush Administration’s “War on Terror” happened openly in American courtrooms and in the daily newspapers. Increasingly, those debates have receded into the rearview mirror as we content ourselves with the illusion that these issues are no longer urgent, or no longer affect us. In his thoughtful new book, Habeas Corpus After 9/11, Professor Jonathan Hafetz of Seton Hall University School of Law, reminds us that these and other legal innovations in the War on Terror are neither resolved, nor isolated, nor benign. We are still living in the legal universe that was constructed on the fly after 9/11. We just don’t want to admit it.
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Dahlia Lithwick |
- About Me:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahlia_Lithwick Dahlia Lithwick is a Canadian writer and editor who lives in the United States.[citation needed] Lithwick is a contributing editor at Newsweek and senior editor at Slate. She writes "Supreme Court Dispatches" and "Jurisprudence" and has covered the Microsoft trial and other legal issues for Slate. Before joining Slate as a freelancer in 1999, she worked for a family law firm in Reno, Nevada.[citation needed] Her work has appeared in The New Republic, ELLE, The Ottawa Citizen, and The Washington Post. She was a regular guest on The Al Franken Show, and has been a guest columnist for the New York Times Op-Ed page. Lithwick, functioning in her role as Slate's legal correspondent, frequently[quantify] provides summaries of and commentary on current United States Supreme Court cases as a guest on National Public Radio's newsmagazine Day to Day, which is co-produced by Slate.com. She received the Online News Association's award for online commentary in 2001.[1] Lithwick was born in Canada[vague] and is a Canadian citizen. She moved to the U.S. to study at Yale University, where she received a B.A. in English in 1990. As a student at Yale she debated on the American Parliamentary Debate Association circuit. In 1990 she and her debate partner at the time Austan Goolsbee were runners up for National Debate Team of the Year.[dubious – discuss] She went on to study law at Stanford University, where she received her J.D. in 1996. She then clerked for Judge Procter Hug on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.[1] She is Jewish, and keeps a kosher home.[2][why?] She considers herself a liberal.[3] She is also noted[by whom?] for her outspoken political and global opinions,[4] having called for a "bomb-throwing...liberal Supreme Court Justice".[5]
- Website:
- http://www.slate.com/id/2272970/author/26373
- About Me:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahlia_Lithwick Dahlia Lithwick is a Canadian writer and editor who lives in the United States.[citation needed] Lithwick is a contributing editor at Newsweek and senior editor at Slate. She writes "Supreme Court Dispatches" and "Jurisprudence" and has covered the Microsoft trial and other legal issues for Slate. Before joining Slate as a freelancer in 1999, she worked for a family law firm in Reno, Nevada.[citation needed] Her work has appeared in The New Republic, ELLE, The Ottawa Citizen, and The Washington Post. She was a regular guest on The Al Franken Show, and has been a guest columnist for the New York Times Op-Ed page. Lithwick, functioning in her role as Slate's legal correspondent, frequently[quantify] provides summaries of and commentary on current United States Supreme Court cases as a guest on National Public Radio's newsmagazine Day to Day, which is co-produced by Slate.com. She received the Online News Association's award for online commentary in 2001.[1] Lithwick was born in Canada[vague] and is a Canadian citizen. She moved to the U.S. to study at Yale University, where she received a B.A. in English in 1990. As a student at Yale she debated on the American Parliamentary Debate Association circuit. In 1990 she and her debate partner at the time Austan Goolsbee were runners up for National Debate Team of the Year.[dubious – discuss] She went on to study law at Stanford University, where she received her J.D. in 1996. She then clerked for Judge Procter Hug on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.[1] She is Jewish, and keeps a kosher home.[2][why?] She considers herself a liberal.[3] She is also noted[by whom?] for her outspoken political and global opinions,[4] having called for a "bomb-throwing...liberal Supreme Court Justice".[5]
FDL Book Salon Welcomes Jonathan Hafetz, Habeas Corpus after 9/11: Confronting America’s New Global Detention System |
| By: Dahlia Lithwick Sunday July 10, 2011 1:59 pm |
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First Monday: Politics, The SCOTUS Term, And What It Means For Us All |
| By: Dahlia Lithwick Monday July 7, 2008 12:00 pm |
First of all I want to thank Christy and the folks at Alliance for Justice for inviting me to participate in this terrific series. For all that the web often serves to fracture and polarize us, I am so happy to be involved in enterprises – like the First Monday series – that try to bring us together to talk…..How might we turn the Court into a voting issue on the left? How do we talk about future justices without being labeled elitist and out-of-touch? And what might we do to change confirmation hearings into a meaningful process for vetting judicial candidates.
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