ABA Files Amicus in Al-Hela (due process at GTMO)

Read the brief here.

Editor's note: Was anyone involved in the early days of setting up the commissions? As early as Military Order No. 1? I am interested in any evidence that some of the motivation for a separate system was to experiment with a more expedited process that might be translatable to domestic civilian cases. This may have been motivated by the tough-on-crime rhetoric of the 90s. I once asked Bill Lietzau whether this was an early motivation and he responded with a single word: "No."  Of course, the primary motivation was a hunch that one day a case like Al-Hela ​would be decided.