Wazir Bagram <i>habeas</i> ruling [US DC] News
Wazir Bagram habeas ruling [US DC]

Wazir, et al. v. Gates, et al., US District Court for the District of Columbia, June 29, 2009 [dismissing a habeas corpus challenge brought by an Afghan detainee who has been held at Bagram Air Base without having been charged since 2002 on the basis of their finding that Section 7 of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 did not violate the separation of powers principle laid out by the US Supreme Court in United States v. Klein].

Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST has more on legal issues surrounding Bagram Air Base.

THIS DAY @ LAW

28 countries unite against Axis Powers

On January 2, 1942, twenty-eight countries formally agreed not to make peace with the Axis Powers separately. At the time, all twenty-eight were fighting against the Axis as Allies in World War II. The agreement was part of the Declaration by the United Nations, signed the previous day. In December of 1941, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt referred to this group of allies as the "United Nations."

US government agents arrested thousands in Palmer raids

On January 2, 1920, over 500 government agents acting on the direction of US Attorney General Mitchell Palmer carried out a massive counter-terror operation in 33 US cities, arresting between six and ten thousand aliens suspected of Communism, radicalism and anarchism. The "Palmer Raids" and the detentions and deportation proceedings that followed them were denounced by a number of prominent lawyers and judges who later established the American Civil Liberties Union. Read an excerpt from Attorney General Palmer's 1920 article, The Case Against the 'Reds' and learn more about the Palmer Raids and the Red Scare of 1919-20.