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Hamdan's Trial Will Go Forward Next Week: At the BLT, Joe Palazzolo has this post on the denial of Hamdan's request to halt his war crimes trial, noted in today's News Scan. The trial is scheduled for next Monday. After a two hour hearing this morning, U.S. District Judge James Robertson ruled he would not grant the request, because "challenges to the lawfulness of the military commissions must be resolved, in the first instance, by the commissions themselves." This ruling came hours after a military judge rejected Hamdan's arguments that the military tribunals violate the Constitution's equal protection clause. During the hearing, Justice Department lawyer John O'Quinn stated that he interpreted Boumediene v. Bush to mean "the applicability of the Constitution to detainees at Guantanamo is context-specific...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime and Consequences on July 17, 2008 (boomark / email).