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12:00pm - 1:30pm
E Capitol St, NE & 1st Street, NE
A light lunch will be served.
Specific briefing room number will be provided upon response
Judge Timothy Lewis, United States District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania, 1991-1992; United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit,1992-1999
Two years ago, the United States Supreme Court in Boumediene v. Bush ruled that the constitutionally guaranteed right of habeas corpus review applies to persons held in Guantánamo, enabling them to challenge their detentions in federal court. The Supreme Court charged U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia judges with developing the framework for reviewing Guantánamo detainees' habeas cases. These judges have since proved themselves fully capable of handling such suits and have successfully developed consistent jurisprudence on both the standards to be applied and the procedural and evidentiary rules governing these cases. Enacting new federal legislation would only destabilize the existing jurisprudence.
Join us as our expert panelists discuss the timely and critical conclusions of the report, Habeas Works: Federal Courts' Proven Capacity to Handle Guantánamo Cases, joined by sixteen of the nation's most respected former federal judges. Copies of Habeas Works will be available for all attendees.
A proposal by late Senator Robert Byrd, approved by Congress in 2004, designates September 17 as Constitution Day, and mandates that all publicly funded educational institutions provide educational programming on the history of the American Constitution on that day.
This year, as in years past, the Constitution Project will co-host an event to call attention to the important liberties and safeguards enshrined in our nation's enduring charter. We realize that people of various political philosophies can have very different ideas about what the Constitution means, but like Senator Byrd, we believe the country will be better off if more Americans are familiar with its text and its interpretation throughout history. Please save the date for our Constitution Day event. Full details to follow soon.
