The Supreme Court and the Military Detention of U.S. Citizen Enemy Combatants
The Hamdi and Padilla Cases

Two days before the Supreme Court hears arguments in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld and Rumsfeld v. Padilla, AEI will host a discussion of the legal and policy issues raised by detaining under military law U.S. citizens who take up arms against the United States. The discussion will be led by AEI adjunct fellows Bradford Berenson and Richard Klingler, whose organization, Citizens for the Common Defence, has filed a brief with the Court, and Adam Charnes, counsel of record on the organization's brief. Berenson, Klingler, and Charnes will argue that the president has power as commander-in-chief to detain and interrogate all enemy fighters, regardless of citizenship, and that the role of the federal courts in reviewing the detention of U.S. citizen enemies is a limited one.

About the Author

 

David
Frum
  • David Frum is the author of six books, most recently, Comeback: Conservatism That Can Win Again (Doubleday, 2007). While at AEI, he studied recent political, generational, and demographic trends. In 2007, the British newspaper Daily Telegraph named him one of America's fifty most influential conservatives. Mr. Frum is a regular commentator on public radio's Marketplace and a columnist for The Week and Canada's National Post.

 

Richard
Klingler

 

Bradford
Berenson
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