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An inspiring legal thriller place against the background of the warfare on terror, The Problem tells the inside story of your historic Supreme Court docket showdown. At its middle are a Navy JAG and a constitutional law professor who, in the aftermath of 9/11, find themselves defending their land in the unlikeliest of ways: by suing the chief executive of the United States with respect to an accused terrorist to be able to avoid the American government from breaking the law and violating the Constitution.
Jonathan Mahler traces the voyage of their client, Salim Ahmed Hamdan, from the Yemeni mosque where he was first recruited for jihad in 1998, through his years working as a drivers for Osama bin Laden, to his capture in Afghanistan in November 2001 and his subsequent copy to Guantanamo Bay. It had been there that Hamdan was chosen by President Bush to be tried before a particular armed forces tribunal and designated a military legal professional to stand for him, a thirty-five-year-old graduate scholar of the Naval Academy, Lieutenant Commander Charles Swift.
No one expected Swift to install much of a defense. Not only were the guidelines of the tribunals, America’s first in more than fifty years, stacked against him, his superiors at the Pentagon were pressuring him to persuade Hamdan to plead guilty. But Swift didn’t believe the tribunals were either legal or reasonable, so he enlisted a Georgetown law professor known as Neal Katyal to help him sue the Bush supervision over their legality. In the spring and coil of 2006, Katyal, who had minimal trial experience, needed the truth to the Supreme Court docket and earned. The landmark ruling has been called the Court docket’s most significant decision ever before on presidential ability and the guideline of laws.
Written with the assistance of Swift and Katyal, The Problem follows the braided testimonies of Swift’s extreme, precarious romantic relationship with Hamdan and the unprecedented legal circumstance itself. Combining wealthy character portraits and courtroom dilemma reminiscent of Jonathan Harr’s A Civil Action with advanced yet accessible legal analysis, The Problem is a riveting narrative that illuminates some of the most pressing constitutional questions of the post-9/11 time.
