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9:05 AM ET, June 30, 2006

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Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
Justices, 5-3, Broadly Reject Bush Plan to Try Detainees  —  WASHINGTON, June 29 — The Supreme Court on Thursday repudiated the Bush administration's plan to put Guantánamo detainees on trial before military commissions, ruling broadly that the commissions were unauthorized by federal statute and violated international law.
Discussion: Balkinization and Charging RINO
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Guest Blogger: Hamdan and the Youngstown Framework  —  By Aziz Huq, Associate Counsel of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law  —  It is not too early to mark the Supreme Court's decision in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld as a landmark.  Nor is it too early to wonder what shadow this monument will cast.
Ronald A. Cass / Real Clear Politics:
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: Common Sense at War  —  Liberty may have been the traditional casualty of war, but common sense is its new colleague.  The Supreme Court, trying hard on the anniversary of last term's Kelo decision to find a suitable sequel, performed a rare triple loop in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld.
Balkinization:
Hamdan as a Democracy-Forcing Decision  —  The key to understanding Hamdan is that the Court did not tell the President that he could under no circumstances create military tribunals with very limited procedural guarantees (in this case, without any right to know what the charges are or the right …
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:   Analysis: What Hamdan did not decide
Jerusalem Post:
Report: Mubarak demands Hamas be expelled from Syria  —  Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak demanded from his Syrian counterpart Bashar Assad to deport the Syrian-based Hamas leadership unless it agrees to release kidnapped IDF soldier Cpl. Gilad Shalit, Palestinian sources said on Friday.
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Steve Clemons / The Washington Note:
Reflections on the USS Liberty and Gilad Shalit: Disproportionate Response
Discussion: The Agonist
Reuters:
Militants taunt Israel over kidnapped soldier
Discussion: Hyscience and PartisanTimes.com
MSNBC:
Justices revise part of Texas redistricting  —  Court also rules state legislators may draw new maps as often as they like … WASHINGTON - A fractured Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that states are free to redraw congressional districts whenever they want, largely blessing Tom DeLay's …
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Los Angeles Times:
GOP Has a Fix in Mind, but It May Not Be Easy
Steve Bainbridge / ProfessorBainbridge.com:
Evading Hamdan  —  U.S. Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC) …
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
House Assails Media Report on Tracking of Finances  —  WASHINGTON, June 29 — The House of Representatives on Thursday condemned the recent disclosure of a classified program to track financial transactions and called on the media to cooperate in keeping such efforts secret.
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Associated Press:
House resolution condemns media over terror stories
Opinion Journal:
Fit and Unfit to Print  —  What are the obligations of the press in wartime? … So wrote the great legal scholar, Alexander Bickel, about the duties of the press in his 1975 collection of essays "The Morality of Consent."  We like to re-read Bickel to get our Constitutional bearings …
Globe and Mail:
Hateful chatter behind the veil  —  Key suspects' wives held radical views, Web postings reveal  —  MISSISSAUGA — When it came time to write up the premarital agreement between Zakaria Amara and Nada Farooq, Ms. Farooq briefly considered adding a clause that would allow her to ask for a divorce.
USA Today:
Lawmakers: NSA database incomplete  —  WASHINGTON — Members of the House and Senate intelligence committees confirm that the National Security Agency has compiled a massive database of domestic phone call records.  But some lawmakers also say that cooperation by the nation's telecommunication companies …
Lee Keath / Associated Press:
Bin Laden hails slain al-Zarqawi as 'lion'  —  CAIRO, Egypt - Osama bin Laden defended attacks by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi against civilians in Iraq, purportedly saying in a taped Web message Friday that the slain al-Qaida in Iraq leader was acting under orders to kill anyone who backs American forces.
Washington Post:
A Governing Philosophy Rebuffed  —  Ruling Emphasizes Constitutional Boundaries  —  For five years, President Bush waged war as he saw fit.  If intelligence officers needed to eavesdrop on overseas telephone calls without warrants, he authorized it.  If the military wanted to hold terrorism suspects without trial, he let it.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Comeback talk creates Lott buzz  —  The prospect of former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) returning to leadership next year is creating more and more buzz on and off Capitol Hill, Republican insiders say.  —  The higher volume of talk has been fueled partly by his former aides …
Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
THE HIDDEN POWER  —  On December 18th, Colin Powell, the former Secretary of State, joined other prominent Washington figures at FedEx Field, the Redskins' stadium, in a skybox belonging to the team's owner.  During the game, between the Redskins and the Dallas Cowboys …
Discussion: OrinKerr.com and Oliver Willis
 
 
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