More Reaction to Charles Stimson’s Comments

In what Marjorie Cohn calls one of the most severe blows the Bush administration has dealt to our constitutional democracy, a high-ranking official of the Defense Department attacked lawyers who volunteered to represent Guantánamo detainees. The Pentagon’s Charles Stimson called on corporations to punish this type of pro bono work by forcing their lawyers to choose between lucrative retainers and representing terrorists. Now, Cohn thinks Stimson should more lucrative work … outside of the federal government. See Professor Cohn’s Legal Television Network commentary at here.

As Brian Leiter has blogged, law deans led by Yale’s Harold Koh, have entered the fray as well.

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