If you’re following the reactions to the Hamdan decision today, check out this follow up from Marty Lederman. If Lederman’s right, outlawing the administration’s tribunals isn’t the biggest part of this decision. It also seems to knock the legal foundations — if you can call them that — out of under the president’s legal arguments for using torture or quasi-torture as an instrument of state policy.
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