Graham-Levin amendment on detainee judicial review [US Senate] News
Graham-Levin amendment on detainee judicial review [US Senate]

Senate Amendment 2524 to S. 1042 (the 2006 defense appropriations bill), US Senate, November 10, 2005 [mitigating an earlier amendment by Senator Lindsey Graham by giving detainees an opportunity to appeal the rulings of a military tribunal, but otherwise cutting them off from access to the federal court system]. Read the full text of the amendment [PDF]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

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Guiteau tried for assassinating US President Garfield

On November 14, 1881, Charles Guiteau went on trial for the assassination of US President James A. Garfield. The trial of Guiteau pointed to problems with nineteenth-century law's treatment of insanity; Guiteau's trial is also problematic in retrospect as Garfield's death was immediately attributable not to Guiteau, but to Garfield's doctors who—before sterilization was well understood—repeated probed his wound with unwashed hands while searching for an embedded bullet.