Washington Legal Foundation (WLF)
et al., Amici Curiae
Richard A. Samp, Counsel of RecordThe Washington Legal Foundation, a nonprofit public interest policy and law center, is joined in this brief by the Allied Educational Foundation and the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs. Richard A. Samp is chief counsel for the Washington Legal Foundation. He received his law degree from the University of Michigan in 1980. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for the Respondents as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on March 3, 2004.Johnson v. Eisentrager (1950) held that the Federal courts are closed to the habeas corpus claims of aliens being held…