NYT- In Rising Numbers, Lawyers Head for Guantánamo Bay

[maddezmom]

By NEIL A. LEWIS
Published: May 30, 2005
WASHINGTON, May 29 - In the last few months, the small commercial air service to the naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, has been carrying people the military authorities had hoped would never be allowed there: American lawyers.


And they have been arriving in increasing numbers, providing more than a third of about 530 remaining detainees with representation in federal court. Despite considerable obstacles and expenses, other lawyers are lining up to challenge the government's detention of people the military has called enemy combatants and possible terrorists.

A meeting earlier this month in New York City at the law firm Clifford Chance drew dozens of new volunteer lawyers who attended lectures from other lawyers who have been through the rigorous process of getting the government to allow them access to Guantánamo.

The increase in lawyers for Guantánamo detainees was set in motion last June when the Supreme Court ruled against the Bush administration and said the prisoners there were entitled to challenge their detentions in federal courts.

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more: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/30/politics/30detain.html

[goclark]

1. Kick - interesting

[realFedUp]

2. Too bad Johnny Cochran is dead...

There must be some Arab versions....

[Wilms]

3. Excellent News

Ten years ago, the right-wing was going on and on about how we are "a nation of laws".

Let these atty's remind them.