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Suspension Clause

A controversial executive order leads to internment camps

by NCC Staff

On this day in 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt issued his most-controversial executive order, an act that sent more than…

A controversial executive order leads to internment camps
Lincoln and Taney’s great writ showdown

by Scott Bomboy

On May 28, 1861, Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney directly challenged President Abraham Lincoln’s wartime suspension of…

Lincoln and Taney’s great writ showdown
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: Applying the Constitution to Guantánamo prisoners

by NCC Staff

On June 29, 2006, the Supreme Court ruled that the Bush administration's use of military commissions to try suspected terrorists…

Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: Applying the Constitution to Guantánamo prisoners
The constitutional debates over the military prison at Guantánamo Bay

by Lana Ulrich

Gitmo remains a constitutional and political enigma, and its end is not quite yet in sight.

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