Douglas Kmiec November 10: "The Supreme Court and the War on Terror"

Professor Douglas W. Kmiec of the Pepperdine University Law School will speak at a luncheon presented by the Milwaukee Lawyers Chapter and the Marquette Law Student Chapter on the topic "The Supreme Court and the War on Terror --What Remains of the President's Power to 'Wage War Successfully'?"

Prior to Hamdi, Rasul, and Hamdan, the Supreme Court had observed that the power to wage war is "the power to wage war successfully." See Hirabayashi v. United States, 320 U.S. 81, 93. (1943). This observation of Chief Justice Hughes was also noted by two famous Court civil libertarians, Justices Douglas and Black, in their concurring opinion in New York Times v. United States, 403 U.S. 713, 714, 91 S. Ct. 2140, 2142 (1971). In light of recent rulings against the President's conduct of the "war on terror," is this still true?

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