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Understanding Terrorism Cases

Supplemental Reading

For participants who want to learn more about how courts balance liberty and safety during times of national emergency and how the writ of habeas corpus helps them to do so, the following materials are recommended:

The following book:

Rehnquist, William H. (Chief Justice), 2001, All the Laws but One: Civil Liberties in Wartime (New York: Random House).

The following Supreme Court opinions:

To find all of the following 11 cases, with the exception of Ex Parte Merryman (for which the URL is given below), go to www.findlaw.com/casecode/supreme.html and enter the citation number in the appropriate spot. For example, the citation number for
Ex Parte Milligan is 71 U.S. 1.

  1. Ex Parte Merryman, Circuit Court, D. Maryland, April Term 1861.
    www.tourolaw.edu/patch/Merryman/
    2.
  2. The Prize Cases, 67 U.S. 635 (1862)
    3.
  3. Ex Parte Milligan, 71 U.S. 2 (1866)
    4.
  4. Schenck v. United States, 249 U.S. 47 (1919)
    5.
  5. Ex Parte Quirin, 317 U.S. 1 (1942)
    6.
  6. Hirabayashi v. United States, 320 U.S. 81 (1943)
    7.
  7. Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214 (1944)
    8.
  8. Ex Parte Endo, 323 U.S. 283 (1944)
    9.
  9. In Re Yamashita, 327 U.S. 1 (1946)
    10.
  10. Johnson v. Eisentrager, 339 U.S. 763 (1950)
    11.
  11. Reid v. Covert, 351 U.S. 1 (1957)

For the following three cases, go to www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/03slipopinion.html and click on the appropriate case.

Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, 2004
Rasul v. Bush, 2004
Rumsfeld v. Padilla, 2004
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