Gregory Burnep, "Courts at War: Executive Power, Judicial Intervention, and Enemy Combatant Policies since 9/11"
English | ISBN: 0700630473 | 2021 | 248 pages | EPUB | 982 KB
On June 28, 2004, the US Supreme Court broke with a long-standing tradition of deference to the executive in wartime national security cases and became an important actor in an armed conflict. By declining to rubber-stamp the executive branch's actions, the judiciary would henceforth play a major role in shaping national security policies in the war on terror. After the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, lawyers, lawsuits, and court decisions have repeatedly altered the landscape in the policy areas of detention and military commissions. In