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# The Challenge: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Fight over Presidential Power Hardcover – Bargain Price, August 5, 2008

**Brand:** jonathan mahler
**Price:** € 130.60
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- **What is this?** The Challenge: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Fight over Presidential Power Hardcover – Bargain Price, August 5, 2008 by jonathan mahler
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## Customer Reviews

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    Fighting for basic rights when the ENTIRE government is against you
  

*by M***C on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 22, 2010*

I've read several negative reviews for this book that insinuate that only legal and political geeks will find it "a thriller", and I may be either or both, but I was absolutely thrilled by it.  (I'm not the only one by the way, I hear Clooney and Damon are making a film version.)  Some reviewers I've read have been unable to get past their political ideologies and trash the book for portraying Hamdan (bin Laden's driver) sympathetically.  But I would argue that if one truly believes in basic human rights; that all people are entitled to the basics of due process (after all there is a real possibility that we've incarcerated the wrong guy, despite right-wing gov't bashers who seem to think the gov't  ONLY works perfectly when rounding up "terrorists") and that military and civilian leaders with the know-how and guts to  try and stop the ruthless abuse of power by almost every branch and level of our gov't. must be commended for engaging in such a quixotic and unpopular battle, than you WILL be thrilled by this book, because you realize they are protecting all of us through their ridiculously hard work, with 1/16 of the press coverage Paris Hilton gets for a night out on the town.

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    Hamdan vs. Rumsfeld
  

*by W***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 18, 2008*

Here is an astonishing story in which two unlikely and oddly paired attorneys (read heroes) take on the United States government on behalf of a Yemeni citizen detained at Guantanamo.  Neither Lt. Cmdr. Charles Swift, the navy lawyer assigned to the case, nor Neal Katyal, the Georgetown law professor who volunteered to help, could have imagined where the case would take them nor what it would require of their careers, family, and personal well being. But the story of what they did, how they did it, what it took, who helped, and how it all came out is as amazing as it is important, resulting in one of the most significant legal decisions of the post 9/11 era, the Supreme Court's ruling on Hamdan Against Rumsfeld. Jonathan Mahler relates the tangled and extraordinarily complex sequence of events and legal maneuvers with such mastery of the material, you have to believe he had a degree in law was on hand for every conversation, discussion, and encounter.  The Challenge is a gratifying David and Goliath story, but its real worth lies in the issues of justice and constitutionality which this case brings to the fore and which determine whether anyone will receive the justice presumably guaranteed by our constitution and international law.

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    Never thought I'd have found the justice system so interesting
  

*by C***B on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 10, 2018*

Very compelling story of the Hamdan case that has echoes in today's questions over executive power and how legal systems mobilize to preserve the constitution's enforcement. It also exposes you to a few characters who are high-profile for other reasons today! Despite essentially being a legal procedural of an unusual case, it's engaging writing and easy for non-lawyers like me to follow - if anything it's a good gateway book to others like it.

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