Tomorrow, Wednesday, December 5, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Boumediene v. Bush and Al Odah v. United States, the Guantanamo detainees' habeas corpus cases. Without question, this should prove to be one of the more momentous cases of the current Supreme Court Term, and the ultimate decision could well become a major issue in the presidential campaign.
Oral argument is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. and run for one hour. An audio recording of the hearing will be made available shortly after the conclusion of the proceedings (probably within an hour or so), and the transcript at some point in the afternoon.
I'm not going to attempt to analyze the nitty-gritty legal principles (I'll leave that to the professionals, and besides, this diary is plenty long enough anyway), but rather present a general road map for how we've gotten to this point.
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