Former Attorneys General, et al.
Amici Curiae
Andrew G. McBride, Counsel of RecordThree former attorneys general, a former assistant attorney general, and two retired military officers are party to this brief. Andrew G. McBride is a partner with the law firm Wiley, Rein & Felding, where he chairs the appellate practice. He received his law degree from Stanford University in 1987. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for the Respondents as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on February 23, 2006.Petitioner’s legal attack upon the use of military commissions to try and punish captured al Qaeda combatants stems from a fundamentally misguided reading of…