Greenhouse talks Supreme Court
Even at Yale, Linda Greenhouse LAW ’78 just can’t get away from the United States Supreme Court.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning Supreme Court correspondent was feted by Yale students and faculty in a Law School presentation Oct. 6, followed by a Master’s Tea and dinner Monday evening. The events kicked off Greenhouse’s one-year tenure with the Law School’s Law and Media Program. She will become a Knight Distinguished Journalist-in-Residence and Joseph M. Goldstein Senior Fellow with the program in January, charged with delivering lectures and planning large-scale analyses of the...
George Patsourakos
I believe that the failure to grant detainees a trial before being detained has resulted in a detrimental effect on American jurisprudence. The fact is that many detainees have been held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba without a trial -- some for as long as seven years. For the U.S. Government to prevent these detainees from having a trial -- because they are suspected of being terrorists -- violates the right to habeas corpus, which is a critical aspect of American justice. Some of these detainees might be anti-American terrorists, but others might not be. To say that all these detainees are terrorists without giving them a fair trial reminds me of how "justice" prevailed in Nazi Germany and Communist Russia!