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U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit,
23–24
,
41
,
44
,
45
,
119
,
181
,
183–85
,
186–89
,
233
,
263–85

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit,
29–30

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit,
4
,
15–19
,
43–44
,
114
,
189–90

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit,
5
,
30

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit,
31
,
119
,
191
,
194

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit,
36

U.S. Department of Defense,
16–17
,
22
,
41
,
47
,
114
,
152
,
160
,
311n11

    
affidavits filed to avoid evidentiary hearings,
106–7

    
establishment of military tribunals by,
155

    
leak of internal memoranda on torture,
174–78

    
military commissions and,
108

U.S. Department of Homeland Security,
160

U.S. Department of Justice,
160

    
FISA Amendments Act of 2008 and,
242–43

    
leak of internal memoranda on torture,
174
,
176–77

    
Office of Legal Counsel,
174
,
177

U.S. Department of State, designation and regulation of foreign terrorist organizations,
203–4

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia,
24

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York,
44
,
45
,
101
,
120
,
162

U.S. House of Representatives,
230

    
See also
U.S. Congress

U.S. Senate,
158
,
230

    
adoption of FISA,
227–28

    
authorization of Iraq War,
4

    
FISA Amendments Act of 2008 and,
242–43

    
Judiciary Committee,
230–31

    
passage of USA PATRIOT Act,
4

    
response to
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld
,
87–88

    
Select Committee on Intelligence,
171

    
See also
U.S. Congress

U.S. Supreme Court,
3
,
30–33
,
130
,
173

    
Al Odah v. United States
and,
30–31

    
Berger v. New York
and,
310n89

    
Bivens
decision and,
184–85

    
Boumediene v. Bush
and,
xii
,
4–5
,
70–71
,
116–17
,
121–22
,
165–67
,
278–79
,
283
,
311n11

    
Brandenburg v. Ohio
and,
208
,
209
,
217

    
Brown v. Mississippi
and,
169

    
Bush administration and,
xiii
,
33–36
,
37
,
104–17

    
congressional enactments and,
89–94

    
cosmopolitanism and,
74

    
Ex Parte Milligan
and,
125

    
Ex Parte Quirin
and,
125

    
FISA and,
122–23
,
135
,
233
,
234
,
238–39

    
freedom of speech and,
197–99
,
269

    
function of,
76–77
,
89–94

    
fundamental values and,
35
,
137

    
as guardian of the Constitution,
89–94
,
98
,
100
,
113
,
137
,
223–24
,
257–58

    
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld
and,
xii
,
xiii
,
81–90
,
93
,
95
,
97–98

    
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
and,
xii
,
x
,
4–5
,
30–31
,
33–35
,
38
,
70–71
,
79–80
,
98
,
113–14
,
135
,
164–65
,
277–79
,
283–84
,
290n14
,
290n20
,
290n27

    
Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project
and,
xiv–xv
,
207–15
,
215–22

    
Katz v. United States
and,
234–35
,
237–39
,
245
,
249–51

    
Keith
case and,
236–39
,
245
,
249–50

    
Korematsu
case,
137

    
New York Times Co. v. Sullivan
and,
208

    
Olmstead v. United States
and,
254

    
overbreadth doctrine and,
256–57

    
policy of avoidance,
110–17

    
political question doctrine and,
283

    
proportionality and,
137–38

    
Rasul v. Bush
and,
34–35
,
38
,
52–68
,
78–79
,
86
,
89–90
,
95–96

    
In Re Yamashita
and,
125

    
Rumsfeld v. Padilla
and,
30–31
,
34–36
,
38
,
40–45
,
114–15
,
289n7

    
state secrets doctrine and,
189

    
substantive rationality and,
137–38

    
United States v. Jones
and,
253–54

    
United States v. Verdugo-Urquidez
and,
xvi
,
58–60
,
246–48
,
250

    
warrantless wiretapping and,
109
,
226

Verdugo-Urquidez, René Martín,
59–60

Vietnam War,
197
,
216
,
236

Vinson, Roger,
222–23

Volokh, Eugene,
198

War on Drugs,
58–59

War on Terror,
x
,
xiii
,
xv–xvii
,
3
,
12
,
24
,
29–31
,
33–35
,
37
,
76
,
104–17
,
118
,
125
,
262–63

    
declaration of,
227

    
rule of law and,
37–68

    
torture and,
172

warrantless wiretapping,
xv
,
112–13
,
200–201
,
222
,
226
,
250–53
,
273

    
Burger Court and,
226

    
Bush administration and,
122
,
227–31

    
citizens and,
273

    
congressional authorization of,
201

    
Fourth Amendment and,
243–58

    
noncitizens and,
273

    
Obama administration and,
122–23
,
231–33

    
See also
FISA Amendments Act of 2008
;
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)

warrants,
x
,
xv
,
235–39
,
241–42
,
250–51
,
253–57
,
307–8n53
,
307n51
,
310n89

Warren Court,
61
,
74
,
108
,
234–35
,
236

Warsame, Ahmed Abdulkadir,
162

waterboarding,
105
,
118
,
171
,
175
,
176
,
194

Whitney v. California
,
98

Wilkinson, J. Harvie,
17
,
19–20

wiretapping,
101
,
109
,
238–39
,
309n74

    
See also
warrantless wiretapping

World War I,
197
,
207

World War II,
108
,
218
,
219

Yemen,
260–61
,
263
,
264–65
,
272
,
285

Yoo, John,
174
,
176
,
177–78

Owen Fiss
is Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law at Yale University. He clerked for Thurgood Marshall when Marshall was a Court of Appeals judge and later for William J. Brennan Jr. on the U.S. Supreme Court. He is the author of many articles and books, including
Troubled Beginnings of the Modern State, Liberalism Divided,
and
The Irony of Free Speech.
He lives in Connecticut in the New Haven area.

Trevor Sutton
is a graduate of Stanford, Oxford, and Yale Law School. He served as a law clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and as a fellow in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. He now lives in New York City and works on anticorruption matters for a global consulting firm.

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