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Impact of and Commentaries on Hamdan Decision

Senate Republican Policy Committee Policy Paper: The Meaning and Impact of the Supreme Court’s Hamdan Decision (9 pages, PDF), July 11, 2006. “…three areas that may require Congressional response include, but are not limited to, the structure and procedures used to try combatants, the application of the Detainee Treatment Act’s habeas corpus procedures to pending cases, and the Supreme Court’s unprecedented decision that Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions applies to the detainees.”

  • Supreme Court’s decision in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, June 29, 2006
  • The Hidden–and Obvious–Lessons in the Supreme Court’s Divided Ruling Invalidating Military Commissions
  • House Armed Services Committee hearing on standards of military commissions and tribunals, July 12, 2006.
  • Chairman Hunter Opening Statement.

  • Witness statements: Steven Bradbury, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, Department of Justice (pdf); Daniel J. Dell’Orto, Principal Deputy General Counsel, Department of Defense (pdf); Theodore Olson, Former Solicitor General of the United States (pdf); Rear Admiral John Hutson, U.S. Navy (ret.), Dean, Franklin Pierce Law Center, Former Judge Advocate General, U.S. Navy (pdf).
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