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  • Issue Brief posted May 22, 2012 by Andrew Grossman Dismissing Padilla v. Yoo: A Glass Half Empty?

    The Ninth Circuit correctly dismissed Jose Padilla’s lawsuit against John Yoo, the former Department of Justice official who provided key analysis of legal questions arising from the war on terrorism. But being the traditionally liberal and oft-reversed Ninth Circuit, the court could not leave well enough alone and issued an…

  • Testimony posted December 14, 2011 by Andrew Grossman Judicial Reliance on Foreign Law

    Testimony before the Subcommittee on the Constitution,Committee on the Judiciary,United States House of Representatives December 14, 2011 My name is Andrew Grossman. I am a Visiting Legal Fellow in the Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation. The views I express in this testimony are…

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  • Issue Brief posted May 22, 2012 by Andrew Grossman Dismissing Padilla v. Yoo: A Glass Half Empty?

    The Ninth Circuit correctly dismissed Jose Padilla’s lawsuit against John Yoo, the former Department of Justice official who provided key analysis of legal questions arising from the war on terrorism. But being the traditionally liberal and oft-reversed Ninth Circuit, the court could not leave well enough alone and issued an…

  • Testimony posted December 14, 2011 by Andrew Grossman Judicial Reliance on Foreign Law

    Testimony before the Subcommittee on the Constitution,Committee on the Judiciary,United States House of Representatives December 14, 2011 My name is Andrew Grossman. I am a Visiting Legal Fellow in the Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation. The views I express in this testimony are…

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  • Issue Brief posted May 22, 2012 by Andrew Grossman Dismissing Padilla v. Yoo: A Glass Half Empty?

    The Ninth Circuit correctly dismissed Jose Padilla’s lawsuit against John Yoo, the former Department of Justice official who provided key analysis of legal questions arising from the war on terrorism. But being the traditionally liberal and oft-reversed Ninth Circuit, the court could not leave well enough alone and issued an…

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