However, Leonard Orland of the University of Connecticut notes that one of the judges' opinions distinguished between illegal "prior restraint" and legitimate prosecution after publication.
Tracy Schmaler, a Justice Department spokeswoman, said in a statement: "The administration is working on a legal framework that will restore military commissions as a legitimate forum for prosecutions in line with the rule of law.
"I have long been in favour of allowing self-defence as a legitimate protection against prosecution," he said.
These reforms will begin to restore the Commissions as a legitimate forum for prosecution, while bringing them in line with the rule of law.
The new deputy attorney general, James Cole, issued a watered-down memo stating that the federal government would not go after individual marijuana users but that marijuana businesses were legitimate targets for prosecution.
He wanted prosecutions in legitimate courts of law, and only if the case was watertight.
But Egypt's new interim government says his treatment and his prosecution are legitimate.
But should all physicians be subject to intense scrutiny by the D.E.A. and risk arrest and prosecution, leaving legitimate patients to suffer intensely or scramble to find other doctors willing to risk taking them on?
However, Walter Madison, an attorney for Tamir's family, said on Thursday that he knew of no legitimate impediment to a prosecution and that Loehmann and Garmback should be arrested and arraigned in court.
Legitimate targets of surveillance and prosecution using every tool in the box.
