Constitution Daily Blog
Suspension Clause
A controversial executive order leads to internment camps
On this day in 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt issued his most-controversial executive order, an act that sent more than…
Lincoln and Taney’s great writ showdown
On May 28, 1861, Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney directly challenged President Abraham Lincoln’s wartime suspension of…
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: Applying the Constitution to Guantánamo prisoners
On June 29, 2006, the Supreme Court ruled that the Bush administration's use of military commissions to try suspected terrorists…
The constitutional debates over the military prison at Guantánamo Bay
Gitmo remains a constitutional and political enigma, and its end is not quite yet in sight.
