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Saddam's lawyer: His detention - unconstitutional (AP, Jerusalem Post, July 9th, 2004)

Attorney Curtis F.J. Doebbler has made an unusual appeal to the US Supreme Court on behalf of an unlikely client - Saddam Hussein.

Doebbler, the lone American on Saddam's legal team, wants the high court to declare the detention of the ousted Iraqi president unconstitutional.

The long-shot legal maneuver comes as Saddam's lawyers await the chance to meet with their client and find out what charges he will face in a war crimes trial by Iraq's new government. He could face the death penalty. [...]

Doebbler has been critical of the United States' invasion of Iraq.

In an article on his Website, he wrote, "The world's most powerful army is an army of cowards. They are soldiers who are willing to risk the lives of innocent civilians to protect their own. I don't know about my fellow Americans, but I don't feel very much protected by such cowards." [...]

James Klimaski, a Washington lawyer who has worked with Doebbler, said the 43-year-old native of Buffalo, N.Y., is taking on a challenge.

"Lawyers who take unpopular cases believe in the law," he said. "Unpopular cases sometimes in history become popular cases."

Rob Long of National Review wrote a hilarious spoof of Saddam Hussein appearing on Larry King a few months back. It doesn’t seem so funny all of a sudden.