Committee Reports

With over 140 committees covering an enormous number of issues, the expertise of the City Bar membership is both wide and deep. Through its committees, the City Bar issues hundreds of reports and produces hundreds of events each year.

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March 1, 2008

Letter to Congress urging that hearings be convened to consider charges that trials of Guantanamo detainees for war crimes may be subject to improper political influence, and that the chain of command for the military commissions process has been improperly centralized.

Reports
July 1, 2007

Letter to Congress supporting S.185 which would amend the Military Commissions Act and the Detainee Treatment Act by deleting the section that stripped the courts’ jurisdiction to entertain habeas petitions from alien detainees held as “enemy combatants”, May 16, 2007

Reports
May 1, 2007

Letter to Congress urging Congress take immediate action to eliminate provisions of the Military Commissions Act and the Detainee Treatment Act that strip the courts’ jurisdiction to entertain habeas petitions from alien detainees held as “enemy combatants”, April 3, 2007

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