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The Good Ship Jurisdiction: Sunk to a Foggy Bottom

Posted on April 29, 2010, 8:00 am, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Big Picture.

How is the Pope like a Peruvian steamship? The State Department stopped both of them from getting sued. You’re right; it’s not funny at all.

Tags: abuse cases, Arkansas, Article III Courts, Bank of Credit and Commerce International, Bill Clinton, child abuse, civil jurisdiction, Clinton v. Jones, conspiracy, Department of State, Doe v. Roman Catholic Diocese of Galveston-Houston, Eastern District of Louisiana, extradition, Foggy Bottom, foreign head of state, France, Galban Lobo Co., head of state immunity, In re Republic of Peru, John Marshall, Joseph Ratzinger, Judge Lee Rosenthal, Justice John Marshall, Lee Rosenthal, mandamus, Manuel Noriega, Marbury v. Madison, Panama, Paula Jones, Peru, Pope; Benedict XVI, President Bill Clinton, President Clinton, presidential immunity, Roman Catholic Church, separation of powers, sovereign immunity, suggestion, tortious conspiracy, U-boats, Ucayali, United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, waiver of immunity
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War Powers, War Lies: Part 10: Kangaroo

Posted on November 18, 2005, 11:47 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Big Picture.

And here is the moral, strategic, and tactical problem: How we can expect the world to accord full faith and credit to that court’s eventual verdict when we establish and countenance tribunals that are themselves human rights violations? A question urgently worth pondering.

Tags: Abu Ghraib, Abu Ghraib photos, ACLU, administrative review, Afghanistan, Al Odah, Al Quaeda, Alan Dershowitz, Alberto Gonzales, American Civil Liberties Union, Appointing Authority, Captain John Carr, Captain Robert PReston, Central Intelligence Agency, Charles Swift, Chief Justice John Roberts, China, CIA, Colonel Peter Brownback, Combatant Status Review Tribunals, courts martial, CSRTs, Curt S. Cooper, death sentence, Department of State, Donald Rumsfeld, due process, Ellen Ray, enemy combatants, Ex Parte Quirin, gag orders, Geneva Conventions, Georgetown Law School, German Soldiers, Guantanamo, habeas corpus, Harvard Law School, hunger strikes, Idi Amin, illegal combatants, James Robertson, Japan, John Andre, John Carr, John Roberts, Johnson v. Eisentrager, Joyce Hens Green, Judge James Robertson, Judge Joyce Hens Green, Judge Richard Leon, kangaroo courts, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Laurence Tribe, Lieutenant Colonel Curt S. Cooper, Lieutenant Commander Charles Swift, Lori Berenson, Los Angeles Times, Major John Andre, Mel Brooks, Michael Ratner, military commissions, Nanking, Navy SEALs, Neal Katyal, Nigeria, November 13 2001 Order, Order of March 21 2002, Osama bin Laden, Peru, Peter Brownback, pirsoners of war, President Bush, President George W. Bush, Rasul v. Bush, representation by counsel, Revolutionary War, Richard Leon, Robert Preston, rules of evidence, Saddam Hussein, Salim Ahmed Hamdan, secret prisons, Secretary of Defense, Taliban, Thailand, Timothy E. Flanigan, Uganda, Uniform Code of Military Justice, United States District Court for the District of Columbia, V-E Day, Wall Street Journal, William P. Barr, World War II, World War Two, Yale Law Journal
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Posts Tagged ‘Department of State’

The Good Ship Jurisdiction: Sunk to a Foggy Bottom

War Powers, War Lies: Part 10: Kangaroo

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