Jonathan Mahler is the author of a new book about the Hamdan case -- THE CHALLENGE: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Fight over Presidential Power -- and a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine.

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Salim Hamdan's Tribunal and the Strength of the Constitution

Posted August 8, 2008 | 05:17 PM (EST)


Salim Hamdan's military tribunal, which came to a close with his unexpectedly light sentencing this week, may never draw comparisons to Nurememberg -- that great, if flawed, monument to the rule of law -- but in my mind it will always stand as something just as important: A symbol of...

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