NEW JUDGES FOR CAAF

On December 4, the Senate Armed Services Committee considered the President's nominees to fill the vacancies on CAAF: Scott W. Stucky and Margaret A. Ryan. Perhaps some of you know the nominees personally, I would welcome your comments. Here's what I could find:

Stucky:

SASC written responses

As you can see here, Mr. Stucky is currently General Counsel of the SASC.

An article / panel discussion: "US has learned lessons on detainee treatment," Nov. 2005 at UVA Law School. Notable for the following picture and breakout quotation from Mr. Stucky:

The conditions under which prisoners are held at Guantanamo "I don’t think would approximate inhumane treatment,” said Scott Stucky.

He also talked about procedural irregularities in Senators McCain and Graham's early attempts to fix the detainee situation. That is much more interesting stuff to law nerds, but for some reason the PR people at UVA's human rights center didn't seem to think so.

Ryan:
SASC written responses
WRF profile
EDIT: I found the following photo of Ms. Ryan on the WRF site (rehosted by imageshack, but only because I don't know how long her profile will be available on WRF.com):


Finally, the first two opinions of 2007 term have been released. Both unanimous decisions by the three active judges; I do not know how they decide when and whether to include Senior Judges.

One final note: It looks like the diskspace is almost full for JAGCentral. If so, this might be the last post.