Slate's discussion of United States v. Denedo

An alert reader calls our attention to this piece from Slate, written by Slate senior editor Emily Bazelon and Yale Law Professor Judith Resnik.

The piece's subhead encapsulates its point: "The top 10 cases the Obama Justice Department should redo." The article's thesis is that "[t]he overarching Bush effort that Obama's lawyers should reject is the pervasive, insistent attempt to keep people out of the courts." It offers 10 cases in which to reverse that approach. And there at #3 is United States v. Denedo (though, unfortunately the piece refers to CAAF by its previous name—the one Congress changed in 1994). The authors conclude, "This case seems small, but it's another one that raises the important question of access—which the Court of Military Appeals got right. The new DoJ should ask the Supreme Court not to hear the case after all, so that a hearing into the facts surrounding Denedo's guilty plea can proceed in the place it should—the military courts."