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Guantanamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power.

Publication: Trial
Publication Date: 01-FEB-07
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Guantanamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power.(Book review)

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Guantanamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power Joseph Margulies Simon & Schuster www.simonandschuster.com 322 pp., $25

"We are in a fight for our principles, and our first responsibility is to live by them," President George W. Bush advised in his September 20, 2001, address to a joint session of Congress. If the Camp Delta described in Guantanamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power reflects Bush's principles, we should all be grateful that lawyers like Joseph Margulies do not share them.

Margulies, a prominent civil rights attorney and a professor at Northwestern University Law School, was one of the primary attorneys in the Rasul v. Bush litigation. His work in Rasul culminated in the Supreme Court's pronouncement that alien detainees had the right to...

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