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Top Law Firms Join Forces in Landmark Detainee Case
Legal Times via Yahoo Finance ^ | 3/28/06 | Tony Mauro

Posted on 03/28/2006 7:40:06 PM PST by chet_in_ny

When the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments today in a landmark dispute over executive power in wartime, the Bush administration will be outnumbered -- if not outgunned.

Many of the nation's top law firms have signed briefs against the government and in support of Salim Hamdan, the detainee who allegedly served as chauffeur to Osama bin Laden and who is being detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

More than three dozen briefs have been filed on Hamdan's side, largely arguing that the military tribunals established by the White House to try the detainees are illegal. By contrast, only a handful of briefs have been filed on the other side, backing the administration's expansive view of executive authority.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: hamdan; lawyers; probono; salimhamdan; scotus; sympathizers

1 posted on 03/28/2006 7:40:08 PM PST by chet_in_ny
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To: chet_in_ny

No surprise. Most lawyers are Democrats.


2 posted on 03/28/2006 7:41:11 PM PST by peyton randolph (As long is it does me no harm, I don't care if one worships Elmer Fudd.)
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To: chet_in_ny

And from the MSM:

http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/03/28/scotus.tribunal/


3 posted on 03/28/2006 7:41:38 PM PST by chet_in_ny
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To: chet_in_ny

Looks like a bunch of associates needed the pro bono hours, and they all happened to do an amicus on the same case. There goes the goal of trying to get a little bit of press for the firm. (The senior partners signed the briefs, of course.)


4 posted on 03/28/2006 7:42:43 PM PST by July 4th (A vacant lot cancelled out my vote for Bush.)
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To: chet_in_ny
The sharks smell blood...or in this case, tax dollars.
5 posted on 03/28/2006 7:44:40 PM PST by CrawDaddyCA (There is no such thing as a fair fight. Thou shall win at all costs!!)
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To: chet_in_ny

You know you're doing the right thing when....

.....all the lawyers oppose you.


6 posted on 03/28/2006 7:45:06 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Why did Allah create free will and then demand submission? Wouldn't robots have been easier?)
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To: chet_in_ny

TRANSLATION: Big law firms find way to promote themselves by filing irrelevant briefs in the case.

This is about self promotion.


7 posted on 03/28/2006 7:46:49 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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To: CrawDaddyCA
Opps...not tax dollars, but tax deductions.
8 posted on 03/28/2006 7:47:19 PM PST by CrawDaddyCA (There is no such thing as a fair fight. Thou shall win at all costs!!)
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To: chet_in_ny

This country will not survive the suicidal idiocy of those who run many of its institutions.


9 posted on 03/28/2006 7:48:57 PM PST by tomahawk (Proud to be an enemy of Islam)
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To: chet_in_ny

And Law School professors sued the government over military recruiters and got spanked!


10 posted on 03/28/2006 8:19:06 PM PST by LiteKeeper (Beware the secularization of America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
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To: chet_in_ny
"You are either with us or you're with the terrorists."

Why am I not surprised that the Bush/America-hating shysters sided with the Islamic monsters who want to kill Americans. Lawyers are scum.

11 posted on 03/28/2006 8:45:06 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Sacrificing unity and national identity for "diversity" and "multiculturalism" is a really dumb idea)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

All lawyer jokes are true!!!!!!


12 posted on 03/28/2006 9:42:53 PM PST by Claytonbridge
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To: chet_in_ny

Whatever Scalia says, I agree.


13 posted on 03/29/2006 4:37:52 AM PST by Loyal Buckeye
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To: peyton randolph

I knew there was a reason I can't get hired anywhere.


14 posted on 03/29/2006 7:43:42 AM PST by Cyclopean Squid (History is a work in progress)
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