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Aug. 1, 2006
The Supremes
The newly constituted U.S. Supreme Court delivered many unanimous opinions last term--and refreshingly judgelike justice. By Douglas W. Kmiec
By Douglas W. Kmiec
The rookie year of the Roberts Court was almost a great success. Its one dark moment, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (2006 U.S. LEXIS 5185), was a doozy. In that single case, the Court told the president he was acting illegally in creating military commissions, told Congress that the Constitution doesn't really mean what it says about its authority to limit the Court's jurisdiction-and...
The rookie year of the Roberts Court was almost a great success. Its one dark moment, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (2006 U.S. LEXIS 5185), was a doozy. In that single case, the Court told the president he was acting illegally in creating military commissions, told Congress that the Constitution doesn't really mean what it says about its authority to limit the Court's jurisdiction-and...
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