Come to think of it, I suppose I should have thrown a "You go, Judge Kottar-Kelly" into the post. After reading what we did to this guy, I just didn't think of it somehow.
This is still my personal favorite through-the-looking-glass Guantanamo case. Note that the judge is a Bush appointee, & note what positions Obama's DOJ is arguing.
I'm not actually sure that it being a habeas case means it's one of the stronger ones--how much of a threat they think you are is far from the only release criterion.
hi! I should go to bed, my daughter is probably going to wake up in 5 hours.
Good luck with that. It's nice to hear from you, and thanks for the link, which I'm holding off on till tomorrow, as I'm halfway through a movie.
Keep up the outrage-blogging, LB. It's important stuff.
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Roman Polanski in Swiss custody, awaiting extradition hearings to US
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I was hoping for a thread on the Polanski business, but I don't want to derail these serious ones. Can we have a new one?
Oh jeez. What's next in Polanski's life?
12: I put you on the front page in a mild joke. Please let me know if you'd rather not be there, and I'll take you down.
So, is the al-Rubiah case signal that the Obama administration is going to business-as-usual us on detainees, that it's being wishy-washy about them or that the apparatus of government is so large that parts of it can argue positions different from those one hopes are held by the person at the top? Or was I basically just projecting, fingers crossed, when I spent last year hoping/thinking the Obama administration would be willing to do something good about the really stupid cases? I am sufficiently ignorant of both government and law to have no idea how to feel about this other than inspecifically bad.
Um, I should note that I misspelled Judge Kollar-Kotelly's name really egregiously here -- I'll be fixing that when I get home. Whoops.
I blame the alliteration.