Sentences with phrase «enemy combatants for»

In Ex parte Quirin, 317 U. S. 1, we had occasion to consider at length the sources and nature of the authority to create military commissions for the trial of enemy combatants for offenses against the law of war.

We further pointed out that Congress, by sanctioning trial of enemy combatants for violations of the law of war by military commission, had not attempted to codify the law of war or to mark its precise boundaries.

(a) Nature of the authority to create military commissions for the trial of enemy combatants for offenses against the law of war, and principles governing the exercise of jurisdiction by such commissions, considered.

Not exact matches

On the battlefield, it means the literal enemy combatant, but for a business, the enemy could be a marketplace or personnel crisis, a cash flow problem or a product delay.

In addition to civil rights for people of color, women and LGBT, there has been an expansion of religious liberty for minority sects, enforcement of viewpoint neutrality with respect to access to various public and non-public forums (e.g. religious student groups must be granted equal access to school facilities as their secular counterparts, etc) greater protections against age and disability discrimination, and recognition of habeas corpus rights even for enemy combatants.

Mr Prothero, I would venture to say that you have never been fired upon by an enemy combatant; never been in fear for your life in a foreign land; and obviously never been dependent on the man next to you for the protection he affords.

Killing enemy combatants in battles for self - defense and protection of the home country and executing vicious criminals by justice are perfectly acceptable and are commanded by God.

(7) it is REDACTED consistent with U.S. law and the laws of war for the Secretary of Defense to detain Mr. Padilla as enemy combatant.

For example, a self - proclaimed terrorist from the Animal Liberation Front could not be detained as an enemy combatant, but that is not among the terrorist organizations that Congress has declared war on in the AUMF.

For example, the Declaration that supported the Padilla detention as an enemy combatant was as follows:

We know from the Jose Padilla case that US citizens can be detained in the US and held without charge for several years if the POTUS labels them as enemy combatants.

There have also been military commission cases since Padilla, but they go to the question of the proper scope and process to apply in military commissions of enemy combatants imposing some punishment beyond indefinite detention as a quasi-prisoner of war for the duration of the war on terrorism authorized by the AUMF.

Pataki pretty much stuck to the GOP line, criticizing the president for entitling «enemy combatants» to Miranda warnings, enabling them to «lawyer up and not talk about what they know»; and going along with US AG Eric Holder's decision to (so far) hold the KSM trial in a civilian court in NYC.

The US authorities initially claimed he was an «enemy combatant» in the global war on terror and for years our government more or less accepted this.

«Physicians and other personnel are not there for years at a time; they're going in for maybe six weeks or six months, into a very tense environment and making resource - allocation decisions, deciding who gets care and who doesn't: our soldiers versus friendly soldiers versus enemy combatants versus civilians, children.

But for me the combatants are a little too blasé about the nature of the enemy: perhaps it's the coward in me speaking, but I would expect to see a certain amount of terror in the defenders regardless of how accustomed they are to their daily nightmare.

They also can be used as scouts, going ahead of the humans in their unit to look for enemy combatants, explosive devices, or other dangers that might wait for them.

By juggling characters — so that your three active combatants in any given fight have the skills to exploit your enemy's weakness (fire beats ice, for example)-- it's possible to trigger chains of attacks, called Sessions.

Accommodating up to four local players or a dozen combatants over Xbox Live, this deviation permits the game's enormous roster of friendly and enemy characters to vie for supremacy.

Survivor skills include rapid crafting for faster crafting of throwable objects and ammo when running to evade enemy attacks; resourceful combatant provides greater XP for killing or knocking out enemies with crafted handheld objects; avid learner produces an XP bonus for finding survival caches, documents and relics as well as completing challenges; and much more besides.

The Norse Yingling dynasty, for example, summons a ghost to hurl lightning strikes at enemy combatants.

And soon, he will likely have «foonote in history» to add to his resume, as the Supreme Court's decision in the detainee case will clarify the legal rights of enemy combatants / detainees for the remainder of this administration and moving forward.

Attorney General Michael Mukasey gave the commencement address Friday at Boston College Law School, acknowledging the controversy over his appearance but nonetheless using the occasion to defend the government lawyers who are now under attack for their roles in drafting legal memoranda condoning the use of torture in interrogating enemy combatants.

Take, for example, the «enemy combatants» versus prisoners of war debate.

Thanks to Dale for pointing out that even for soldiers in a war situation, where different rules apply, deliberately killing a helpless enemy combatant is murder.

In a piece entitled, The Rumsfeld - Bush Legal Black Hole: Powers Formerly Reserved Only for Kings, Village Voice columnist Nat Hentoff reports on a Feb. 6 report from The Association of the Bar of the City of New York condemning the Bush administration's indefinite detentions of alleged enemy combatants.

Holland writes, «The court's intervention is troubling news for the White House, which has been battered by criticism of its treatment of detainees and was rebuked by the high court last year for holding enemy combatants in legal limbo.»

Although reading the Huffington Post could be used for torturing enemy combatants detained at Guantanamo Bay, those who write for the site think what they've contributed is worth some bucks.

However, in the unique facts of Capt. Semrau's case, the greatest challenge faced by the prosecution may not be in proving its case beyond a reasonable doubt, but in maintaining moral legitimacy when imposing the obligatory life sentence for murder upon a decorated soldier who, if found guilty, would be responsible for an apparent mercy killing of an enemy combatant.

For example, the writ of habeas corpus has been sought to seek the release of people held as «enemy combatants» rather than pursuant to a criminal conviction.