[Kinda Off Topic?] Hindu Lawyer Defeats Bush's Secret Tribunals

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WASHINGTON, DC (September 5, 2006): One man has taken President

Bush's handling of detainees and won.

 

Neal Katyal won the historic case of Hamdan v. Rumsfeld at the

United States Supreme Court. Katyal argued the court should

intervene in the military tribunals set up by the president to try

accused war criminals at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. [...]

 

Earnest and genial, Katyal, 34, is a young professor at Georgetown

University Law Center who, seven years after a Supreme Court

clerkship, has already had a finger in many important national

cases. [...]

 

Katyal, 34, is Raised in a suburb of Chicago, Katyal is the son of

Hindu Indian immigrants who hoped he would become a doctor. He

graduated from Yale Law School in 1995, and after clerking for

Supreme Court justice Stephen Breyer, he served as national security

adviser to Holder in 1998 and 1999. Since then, he's had a hand in

many of the country's most prominent cases. He was part of Harvard

Law School professor Laurence Tribe's team that worked for Vice

President Al Gore in the Florida recount battles of 2000.

 

SOURCE: National Public Radio, Washington DC, Morning Edition,

September 5, 2006

URL: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5767777