The Challenge: Hamdan V. Rumsfeld and the Fight over Presidential Power: Library Edition cover

The Challenge: Hamdan V. Rumsfeld and the Fight over Presidential Power: Library Edition

by Jonathan Mahler

In 2006, a young defense lawyer assigned to represent Osama bin Laden's driver in a military tribunal sued the Bush administration over the legality of the tribunals-and won. Here is the inside story of this seminal case, perhaps the most important decision on presidential power in the history of the Supreme Court.

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