David Cole, The Nation's legal affairs correspondent and a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, is the author of No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System (New Press), co-author, with James X. Dempsey, of Terrorism and the Constitution: Sacrificing Civil Liberties for National Security (New Press; recently released in a fully revised paperback edition), author of Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism (New Press) and co-author, with Jules Lobel, of Less Safe, Less Free: Why America Is Losing the War on Terror (New Press, 2007).

Blog Entries by David Cole

Putting Boumediene in Global Perspective

Posted June 16, 2008 | 06:05 PM (EST)


The dissenting Justices in last week's landmark ruling on the constitutional rights of detainees at Guantanamo condemned the decision as unprecedented judicial activism, and in a sense, it was. Never before has the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional joint action of the President and Congress on a military matter during wartime....

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