ACS is pleased to release an issue brief by Dawn Johnsen, Professor of Law at the Indiana University School of Law--Bloomington, entitled, All the President's Lawyers: How to Avoid Another "Torture Opinion" Debacle. The brief is available here.
Professor Johnsen examines the inadequacy of external checks on presidential powers, particularly as exercised in a time of war or national emergency. More specifically, she outlines the executive branch legal memoranda severely limiting the definition of torture.