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The infamous detainees of Guantnamo, garbed in their bright orange prison jumpsuits, have come to symbolize a host of controversial policies and powers claimed by President George W. Bush in the so-called war on terror. Designated as "enemy combatants," a vaguely defined and previously unrecognized category in the international laws of war, they have been at the center of a legal firestorm challenging the Bush administration's conduct of the war. Howard Ball, one of our nation's leading constitutional authorities, takes a close look at the White House's defense of its detainee program (what some have called an "American gulag"), the court actions used to challenge that enormous expansion of unchecked presidential power, and the potential threats to American democracy should those actions ultimately fail. Focusing on the Enemy Combatants Cases of 2004 and 2006including Rasul v. Bush, Hamdi v. Bush, Rumsfeld v. Padilla, and Hamdan v. RumsfeldBall examines competing legal arguments pitting the detainees' fundamental human rights (including habeas corpus) against Bush's proclamation that he alone has the authority to decide their fate, as well as efforts by the Court and Congress to re

Author

Ball, Howard, 1937-

Publisher

Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780700615292

Subjects

Law, Political Science, Science

Updated

2026-03-24