Recommended Reading

CASES

War Powers

Youngstown Sheet & Tube v. Sawyer, 343 U.S. 579 (1952)

Holtzman v. Schlesinger, 361 F. Supp. 553 (E.D.N.Y. 1973)

Orlando v. Laird, 443 F.2d 1039 (2nd Cir. 1971)

Holtzman v. Schlesinger, 484 F.2d 1307 (2nd Cir. 1973) 

State Secrets

Totten v. United States 92 U.S. 105 (1875)

United States v. Reynolds, 345 U.S. 1 (1953)

Mohamed v. Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc., 563 F.3d 992 (9^th Cir. 2009)

Khaled El-Masri v. U.S., 479 F.3d 296 (4^th Cir. 2006)

In re National Security Agency Telecommunications Records Litigation, 564 F. Supp. 2d 1109 (N.D. Cal. 2008)

Ellsberg v. Mitchell, 709 F.2d 51 (D.C. Cir. 1983) 

Torture

Arar v. Ashcroft, 532 F.3d 157 (2^nd Cir. 2008)

Khaled El-Masri v. U.S., 479 F.3d 296 (4^th Cir. 2006) 

Due Process and Habeas Corpus

Boumediene v. Bush, 553 U.S. __ (2008)

Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, 548 U.S. 557 (2006)

Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, 542 U.S. 507 (2004) 

Accountability for Lawyer’s Opinion Leading to Denials of Due Process and Abusive Treatment 

Padilla v. Yoo, Order Denying in Part and Granting in Part Defendant’s Motion to Dismiss, No. C 08-00035JSW, US Dist. Court for Northern District of California (June 12, 2009) 

Executive Privilege

United States v. Nixon, 418 U.S. 683 (1974) 

 

Other Authorities – Speeches, Reports, Statutes, Hearings, Books - 

George Washington’s Farewell Address

John Quincy Adams’ July 4, 1821 Address to the People

The ABA Commission Report on Presidential Signing Statements

The War Powers Resolution

The Church Commission Hearings

The Military Commissions Act of 2006

Secrecy: Report of the Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy (Moynihan Commission)

Eugene Jarecki, American Way of War - Guided Missiles, Misguided Men, and a Republic in Peril. New York: Free Press, 2008

Barry Siegel, Claim of Privilege - A Mysterious Plane Crash, a Landmark Supreme Court Case, and the Rise of State Secrets. New York: Harper Perennial, 2008

John C. Conyers Jr., The Constitution in Crisis: The High Crimes of the Bush Administration and a Blueprint for Impeachment. New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2007

Jane Mayer, The Dark Side - The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals. New York: Doubleday, 2008

David Swanson, Daybreak - Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2009

James L. Sundquist, The Decline and Resurgence of Congress. Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1981

Naomi Wolf, The End of America – A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2007

Joseph Margulies, Guantanamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006

Louis Fisher, In the Name of National Security - Unchecked Presidential Power and the Reynolds Case. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2006

Bruce Fein, Constitutional Peril:  The Life and Death Struggle for our Constitution and Democracy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

Lawrence Wright, The Looming Tower - Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006

Stephen Holmes, The Matador's Cape - America's Reckless Response to Terror. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007

Daniel Ellsberg, Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers. New York: Penguin Group, 2002

Mark Hertsgaard, On Bended Knee - The Press and the Reagan Presidency. New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1988

Edmund Burke, Reflections on the French Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993

Charlie Savage, The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2007

Francis D. Wormuth and Edwin B Firmage, To Chain the Dog of War - The War Power of Congress in History and Law. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1986

Kenneth Roth (Editor), Minky Worden (Editor), Amy D. Bernstein (Editor),  Torture - Does It Make Us Safer? Is It Ever OK?. New York: The New Press, 2005

Trevor Paglen and A.C. Thompson, Torture Taxi - On the Trail of the CIA's Rendition Flights. Hoboken: Melville House Publishing, 2006

Frederick A.O. Schwarz Jr. and Aziz Z. Huq, Unchecked and Unbalanced - Presidential Power in a Time of Terror. New York: The New Press 2007

Roy Gutman, Banana Diplomacy – The Making of American Policy in Nicaragua 1981-1987. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988