Writing over at Forbes, Pepperdine law professor Gregory McNeal has this thoughtful piece about the President's policy directive. It contains some interesting ruminations on the breadth of some of the wa...

On February 29, Judge Kollar-Kotelly of the District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed a lawsuit brought under the Torture Victim Protection Act against President Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka, based...

Over at The Atlantic, Andrew Cohen offers this analysis of President Obama's implementation procedures for Section 1022 of the NDAA.

As predicted, a group of leading Senate Republicans (McCain, Hutchison, Grassley, Chambliss, Murkowski and Coats) have introduced an alternative cybersecurity bill that will be in direct competition with...

Sudan and newly-independent South Sudan have featured in many news stories over the last several years; a headline in today's Washington Post, for example, reads "South Sudan: Sudan bombed 2 oil wells in...

Someone pointed out to me yesterday that in the recent Al Kandari cert petition, there is exactly one secondary source site: a Lawfare post. (See pp. vii and p. 12). Neato.

In her news roundup for last Friday, Ritika briefly mentioned that a drone strike had killed four al-Shabab militants in Somalia.  The New York Times had also cursorily mentioned the strike in this shor...

While the experience is fresh, I thought I'd share some reflections on this morning's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the Due Process Guarantee Act.

Here is Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins's remarks to the press, which are being delivered at this hour: Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins Remarks at Guantanamo Bay on 29 February 2012

Judge Pohl then turns to his required colloquy with Khan to verify that his plea is truthful, voluntary, and made cognizant of consequences. Khan’s plea, he says, will not be accepted unless he validates...

The commission reconvenes and Judge Pohl announces that he has received the document. Trial counsel Sullivan reiterates that she had no notice about this document. But it turns out not to matter. Judge ...

Military Judge James Pohl walks in promptly at 9:00 am and calls the military commission to order. Trial counsel Courtney Sullivan of the Justice Department begins by announcing that there have been min...

When my daughter was in day care and I would pick her up in the evening and ask her what she did during the day, she would sometimes respond, a little alarmingly, "I sat in a dark room and stared at a wa...

Raffaela earlier posted the President's implementation procedures for Section 1022 of the NDAA--that is, the not-so-mandatory military detention provision. I have only had a chance to read it over quickl...

This just in from the Department of Justice: Today at 6:30 pm, the White House issued the following Fact Sheet and a Presidential Policy Directive that sets forth procedures implementing Section 1022 of ...

The narrow question presented in the Kiobel v.