The Federalist Society has launched an online debate series. The first involves the recent al-Marri case in which a divided panel of the Fourth Circuit held that the president could not detain as an enemy combatant a non-American, legally present in the U.S. on a student visa, who had been sent here by al-Qaeda as a terrorist sleeper. (I wrote this article about the case a few weeks back.)

The online debate is available here, through the Federalist Society’s website (www.fed-soc.org). As is the Federalist Society’s practice, it brought together top legal talent and the views offered were wide-ranging. I was privileged to be asked to participate along with George Terwilliger, Orin Kerr, Richard Epstein, Erwin Chemerinsky and John Hutson.