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Detentions and the War/Use-of-Military-Force Distinction

By | 07.02.09 | 12:42 pm

To build off Daphne’s post about defining the battlefield on which detentions occur, Hofstra law professor Eric M. Freedman writes in to make a point about the constitutional differences between a Congressionally-declared war and the situation we’ve been in since 9/11, in which Congress authorized the use of military More…