Legal Opinion
Jean-Pierre v. U.S. Attorney General
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided September 19, 2007No. 06-13359PublishedCited by 60 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MARCUS, Circuit Judge:
More than fifty years ago, Justice Frankfurter wrote that, when it comes to torture, “there comes a point where this Court should not be ignorant as judges of what we know as men.” Watts v. Indiana, 338 U.S. 49, 52, 69 S.Ct. 1347, 93 L.Ed. 1801 (1949). Today, we decide not whether our humanity should inform our understanding of torture, but whether, in the context of this claim, Congress has eliminated the jurisdiction of the federal courts to address this issue in the first place. We conclude that the question at the heart of this appeal — whether a particular course of…
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