War crimes charges have been brought against two of the Gitmo detainees. This action will set up a legal challenge to the constitutionality of the President’s military commission executive order. The issue is not whether military commissions , as such, are constitutional (they are), but rather whether the President had sufficient constitutional or statutory authority to create military commissions for purposes of trying enemy combatants captured in Afghanistan. Stay tuned.
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Jonathan H. Adler is a professor at William & Mary Law School.
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