The 9/11 Terror Cases: Constitutional Challenges in the War Against Al Qaeda

by Allan A. Ryan

Book Overview

The terrorist attacks of 9/11 are indelibly etched into our cultural memory. This is the story of how the legal ramifications of that day brought two presidents, Congress, and the Supreme Court into repeated confrontation over the incarceration of hundreds of suspected terrorists and "enemy combatants" at the US naval base in Guant?namo, Cuba. Could these prisoners (including an American citizen) be held indefinitely without due process of law? Did...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700621709
• ISBN13: 9780700621705
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"