I know, I know! A goodly number of Lawfare readers are having a good smirk at my expense following the release of Bobby's and Larkin's and my new detention tome. Didn't I promise, one reader was graciou...

Well, at least we learned something about fisheries. Following this morning's lengthy oral argument in Oceana, Inc. v. Locke, the D.C. Circuit had an oh-so-brief brief discussion of Khan v. Obama in ope...

Charlie Savage has the goods this morning regarding the administration's potential responses to the looming expiration of the 60-day WPR clock in connection with the war in Libya.  It's a must-read piece...

(By Benjamin Wittes, Robert Chesney, and Larkin Reynolds) It is with great pleasure that we announce the second edition of the The Emerging Law of Detention: The Guantanamo Habeas Cases as Lawmaking. As...

I guess the search to replace FBI Director Mueller has not been going so well.  The President announced today that he will ask Congress to pave the way for Mueller to serve an additional two years.

Josh Rogin reports a cryptic comment from Senators Kerry and McCain with respect to the looming expiration of the WPR's 60-day clock. Here is Kerry: "I'm not hearing from my colleagues that they feel the...

On Friday morning the D.C. Circuit will hear oral argument in Khan v. Obama (Case No.

The Supreme Court recently granted review in a case, Zivotofsky v. Secretary of State, that concerns the scope of the President’s power to recognize foreign governments.  This case is the latest iteratio...

This press release story in the Miami Herald announces that the British advocacy group, Reprieve, is in the midst of developing a litigation strategy designed to stop the United States from conducting dr...

...sent this in from Huffington Post: SHODDY RAT REMOVAL IN DIRKSEN CAFETERIA: WHERE'S THE HOPE AND CHANGE?Amanda Terkel was on the Hill today for, you know, reporting and stuff. While there, she witness...

A reader writes in to point out that, in my earlier post, I have given away the store on behalf of the administration--and, what's worse, on matters on which I wholeheartedly agree with the administration.

I have now had a chance to read through House Armed Services Chairman Buck McKeon's new detention and AUMF language, released yesterday as part of the Chairman's mark of the National Defense Authorizatio...

As we’ve noted on this blog previously (here and here), continued U.S.

Section 962 of the FY12 National Defense Authorization bill has a very interesting cyberspace “military activities” provision.

The House Armed Services Committee just released the Chairman's mark of the National Defense Authorization bill. I have not looked at it yet, but it apparently contains new language on detention and AUMF...

Ross Douthat, a columnist for the New York Times, has an interesting op-ed today in which he notes that President Obama’s foreign policy is similar to that of President Bush’s but is subject to less of a...