Bush faces wave of challenges to terror law

[brettdale]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1884351,00.html

Bush faces wave of challenges to terror law

The Bush administration yesterday faced a raft of legal challenges to a sweeping new regime for Guantánamo that would deny court oversight to detainees in the war on terror, and would bar prosecution of US personnel for war crimes.
Mr Bush is expected to move within days to sign into law proposals for the treatment and trial before military tribunals of the detainees. The legislation, approved by the senate on Thursday, is a victory for the White House over senate Republicans, who had resisted attempts to relax standards on the treatment of detainees, and depart from standard rules of evidence in their trials.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Good! I would suggest renaming this abomination of a law

the "Constitutional Scholars' and Criminal Defense Lawyers' Full Employment Act" because it's gonna keep a whole regiment of them really busy.

[nam78_two]

2. I think "terror" law is very appropriate though/nt

[Sydnie]

3. Creating a whole new crop of

"Activist lawyers" one law at a time.