Proposed Administration Bill Would Roll Back Human Rights Advancements

Last Wednesday, the Bush Administration submitted an 86 page bill to Congress responding to Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and several other recent developments in national security law. Two days later, an ACS sponsored panel at Duke University explained the impact of this bill.

Describing the Administration’s proposal as “one of the most remarkably cynical things I’ve ever seen a President do,” Panelist and constitutional law scholar Erwin Chemerinsky listed four effects of the proposed legislation:
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