This is a big deal.  The district court  (in the person of Judge Edward Lodge of the District of Idaho) has entered partial summary judgment for the plaintiffs in Al-Kidd v.

H/T to Charlie Savage for sharing the latest---doubtless unofficial---Obama bumper sticker:

Bobby posted a day ago about an important Wall Street Journal news story talking about the US government considering options for pursuing an increasing active and dangerous branch-franchise-affiliate of ...

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has has just stayed Judge Katherine Forrest's decision in Hedges: For the following reasons, we conclude that the public interest weighs in favor of granting the gover...

Last Friday, in an interview, Secretary Janet Napolitano admitted that she never, ever used email.  The Internet cognoscenti are shocked.  They think it either means that she knows that the Internet is n...

The D.C. Circuit has handed down procedural orders in two Guantanamo detention cases. The first grants a joint motion regarding Friday's oral argument in Khairkhwa v. Obama.  The argument session will b...

Now this is interesting: an amicus brief by retired military admirals and generals, on behalf of the appellant in Nashiri v.

Anyone following these issues closely or interested in Harold Koh's address last month on international law and cyberattacks should read Adam Segal's commentary on China's view of the issues.  Adam discu...

The Kiobel v.

This article in the Wall Street Journal, by Julian Barnes and Siobhan Gorman, draws attention to US government plans to ramp up counterterrorism efforts in Libya, including in particular efforts targetin...

Earlier this week, Judge James Pohl issued a new docketing order in U.S. v. Mohammed et al.    Some twenty-five motions will be under consideration at the commission's next session, which will commence o...

The question of when an armed conflict is underway for purposes of triggering the Geneva Conventions and other relevant law of war is not in principle difficult in the case inter-state international arme...

Gabor Rona of Human Rights First writes in with the following comments in response to my brief post of yesterday directing readers' attentions to Captain Patrick McCarthy's testimony at Khadr's sentencin...

Reviewed by Amy Sennett Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power, by David E. Sanger (Crown 2012)

Over at the Weekly Standard, Thomas Jocelyn of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies has this piece on the repatriation to Canada of Omar Khadr. Jocelyn is angry over the myths the international left...

Or, at least, that's what CTV News is reporting: After years of detention at the U.S.

Most of the press coverage of the Lawfare Drone Smackdown has focused, understandably enough, on the FAA's intervention in the event. In this post, however, I want to focus on some of the lessons of the ...