‘Hamdan v. Rumsfeld’: Path to a Landmark Ruling

Attorney Neal Katyal, left, and U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Charles Swift, who represented Guantanamo Bay detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan, speak after the Supreme Court ruled against proposed military tribunals June 29, 2006. In the jargon of the Supreme Court, we talk about “landmark cases.” Some, of course, are more landmark than others. But by any yardstick, the June 2006 ruling in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld was one for the history books. For Nina Totenberg’s story on Hamdan, click here.

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