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That's the essence of yesterday's order from the D.C. Circuit.
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Whenever someone buys things from Amazon.com using our little search widget on the sidebar, Lawfare gets a percentage of the purchase price. If you're thinking about buying big heavy law school text book...
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The Atlantic has an interesting article out about a new Pew poll showing a striking gender gap internationally in attitude towards drone strikes.
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At last week’s Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing, advocates of closing Guantanamo, such as chairman Dick Durbin and Human Rights First president Elisa Massimino, talked about how to close Guantanamo:...
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Kevin’s most recent posts (here and here) continue to demonstrate his seriousness and salutary concern for defendants’ rights; the same is true for Steve. However, Kevin and Steve's posts don’t undermin...
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So says the Washington Post.
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A drone strike killed six militants and injured four in Pakistan as the men were crossing the border from Afghanistan; a senior commander of the Pakistani Taliban was allegedly killed.
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Oral argument in this Guantanamo-related case has been set before Circuit Judges Henderson, Rogers and Tatel for October 22nd.
By way of background, Al Janko filed a damages action against government of...
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There's a lot to say about Peter Margulies' reply to my and Kevin Heller's criticisms of the "former government officials'" amicus brief in al Bahlul--the military commission appeal currently pending bef...
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I've been thinking about ways to get the Lawfare Podcast a wider audience, and I want to recruit some reader help in this endeavor. Over on iTunes, the podcast has only five-star ratings, but nobody has ...
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Here's some legislative action to watch . . . in Deer Trail, CO:
DEER TRAIL, Colo. - The small town of Deer Trail, Colorado is considering a bold move. The town board will be voting on an ordinance that ...
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. . . here is State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki explaining how the administration, under legal obligation to cut off aid to Egypt if there has been coup in that country, is under no legal obligation...
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The White House announcement on Friday that the Defense Department plans to transfer two Algerian detainees held at Guantanamo to Algeria represents the most recent action in a long series of efforts by ...
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As Ben noted earlier this week, he and Daniel Byman of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings launched their report entitled “Tools and Tradeoffs: Confronting U.S.
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Folks, there's more to life than guessing what the future King of England will be named. There's the week that was!
Ritika completed a significant research project comparing various studies' approaches...
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In recent posts both on Lawfare and at Opinio Juris, Steve and Kevin Jon Heller (here and here) sharply critiqued the brief that Jim Schoettler and I filed on Thursday for Former
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Drones continue to raise Senator Rand Paul's (R-KY) hackles---the FBI's drones especially, these days.
Last month, and following drone-related congressional testimony by outgoing FBI Director Robert S.
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So says this White House press release:
Statement by the Press Secretary on Guantanamo Bay
As the President has said, the United States remains determined to close the detention facility at Guantanamo B...
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Gary Schmitt has an interesting piece in the Weekly Standard that argues for eliminating FISC oversight of executive branch surveillance and instead ramping up congressional oversight. He maintains that...
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