Friday, January 18, 2008

Check out Fora.tv and it's Progressive Programs about Guantanamo

Fora.tv has progressive programs about Guantanamo and other important issues... Click on the link to get to the site and while you are there look at the program on Supreme Court argument in Boumediene:

American Society of International Law
Washington, D.C.
Dec 12th, 2007

Boumediene v. Bush: Rights of Detainees in the View of the Supreme Court A panel discussion with Paul Wolfson, Jonathan Cohn, and Neal Katyal

Boumediene v. Bush, a set of consolidated cases argued before the US Supreme Court on December 5, raised the question of whether detainees at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay may challenge their detention through habeas corpus petitions. At this program, scheduled for one week after oral arguments before the Court, counsel for the parties and their amici will debate the issues raised in the case and comment on the questions raised by the Justices at the oral argument. The discussion will cover the effect of the Military Commissions Act of 2006, which purports to strip the federal courts of jurisdiction to hear habeas petitions from the detainees, and whether the detainees are entitled to a hearing on the merits Click on the title to watch.