The challenge : Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the fight over presidential power / Jonathan Mahler.

New York : Farrar Strauss and Giroux, 2008.

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Hamdan, Salim Ahmed, -- 1970- -- Trials, litigation, etc.

Rumsfeld, Donald, -- 1932- -- Trials, litigation, etc.

Trial practice -- United States.

Executive power -- United States.

Jurisdiction -- United States.

War on Terrorism, 2001- -- Law and legislation -- United States.

1. The JAG

2. The trials

3. VUCA

4. The professor

5. The civil power

6. A drowning man

7. The lawsuit

8. Tugging the lion's tail

9. Oh I doubt that seriously Sir

10. Judge assigned - we won the lottery

11. An indefinite recess

12. We're going to crush you

13. Who we are

14. The Supreme Court responds

15. Getting to five

16. Where's the food?

17. The countdown

18. The argument

19. The heroes of Guantánamo?

This book reveals the inside story of the legal case in which a military lawyer sued the president of the United States on behalf of an accused terrorist in order to prevent the American government from breaking the law and violating the Constitution.

"Portions of this work appeared, in somewhat different form, in the June 13, 2004, January 8, 2006, and July 9, 2006 issues of The New York Times Magazine."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780374223205

334 p. ; 24 cm