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OLC Memo: Swift Justice Authorization Act

Apr. 8, 2002 | OLC | ACLU-RDI 4543

An OLC memo concluding that Congress cannot interfere with the President's exercise of his authority as Commander in Chief to control the conduct of operations during war, including his authority to promulgate rules to regulate military commissions.  The memo is criticized and partly repudiated in Steven Bradbury’s 1/15/09 memo regarding the status of certain OLC opinions.

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