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It is important to recognize the differences between the war in Iraq and the war on terrorism. The treatment of those detained…
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First Amendment speech and press rights may also be subordinated to the overriding need to wage war successfully.
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American soldiers had to guard prisoners on the inside while receiving mortar and weapons fire from the outside. Guantanamo is distant from…
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President Bush and his commanders announced early in the conflict that the Conventions applied.
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Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for interrogation methods…
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Without territory, it does not even have the resources to provide detention facilities for prisoners, even if it were interested in holding…
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Applying different standards to al Qaeda does not abandon Geneva, but only recognizes that the U.S. faces a stateless enemy never contemplated…
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Human-rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush's 2002 decision to deny…
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If the Court were to extend its reach to the base, judges could begin managing conditions of confinement, interrogation methods, and the…
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It is also worth asking whether the strict limitations of Geneva make sense in a war against terrorists.
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Nonetheless, Article 5 makes clear that if an Iraqi civilian who is not a member of the armed forces, has engaged in…
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Once the attacks occur, as we learned on Sept. 11, it is too late. It makes little sense to deprive ourselves of…
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I would strongly recommend any young man to stay away from criminal law. It's not a good place to be, unfortunately.
— F. Lee Bailey
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To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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From the standpoint of any sane person, the present problem of capitalist concentration is not only a question of law, but of…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Muhammad professed to derive from Heaven, and he has inserted in the Koran, not only a body of religious doctrines, but political…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Islam has a total organization of life that is completely different from ours; it embraces simply everything,...There is a very marked subordination…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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With the greatest respect, we do not make the criminal law on the basis of opinion polls. A majority of 9:1 could…
— Kenneth Clarke
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I threw my whole life and lived my life in a certain way to make sure that I would never violate any…
— Kenneth Lay
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If he who breaks the law is not punished, he who obeys it is cheated. This, and this alone, is why lawbreakers…
— Thomas Szasz
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Political economy regards the proletarian like a horse, he must receive enough to enable him to work. It does not consider him,…
— Karl Marx
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It's funny that they've called homosexuality a crime... At this rate, everyone will be a criminal.
— Kangna Ranaut
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I'm real bent on dialogue. I'm just a little bit crazy and when you put that along with 20 years as a…
— Christopher Darden
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The actual and potential harm of use of the drug is not great enough to justify intrusion by the criminal law into…
— Unknown Author
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