Kafka does Guantanamo

I heard this on NPR this morning and just assumed I was too sleepy to understand what I'd heard, but aparently not. From the NPR website:

The first serious cracks in the newly minted Military Commissions Act started to appear just two hours after Hicks entered the courtroom on Monday, when the judge disqualified two of Hicks' civilian defense attorneys.

One of the disqualified lawyers was Joshua Dratel, a well-known Manhattan criminal defense attorney. Dratel has been on Hicks case since Hicks was first charged, about three years ago.

Under the new regulations, civilian lawyers are required to sign an agreement to abide by the new tribunal rules. But the military hasn't finished writing the rules. Dratel said he could not sign a blank check, documents that might commit him to regulations that have yet to be written.

So basically the lawyer had to leave because he refused to sign rules that weren't yet written? Am I missing something?

Labels: politics

- posted by Amy @ 3/30/2007 12:49:00 PM