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Lawfare readers may be interested in reading the two competing resolutions under consideration in the House this week.
The first is a resolution requiring the President to withdraw U.S. forces from comb...
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Senator McConnell has an op-ed in the Washington Post sharply criticizing the Obama administration for pursuing a civilian court prosecution of two Iraqi men who were arrested in Kentucky recently on cha...
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As the House plans to vote on two Libya resolutions (one authorizes the use of force, while another demands an end to U.S. engagement in combat activities), Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer is voicing his opp...
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The invaluable Steve Aftergood, over at Secrecy News, is reporting:
Attorneys for New York Times reporter James Risen yesterday asked a court to quash a subpoena requiring him to testify in the case of f...
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Senators Kerry and McCain, and eight other prominent Senators, introduced a Resolution on Libya today. The Resolution authorizes the President “to continue the limited use of the United States Armed For...
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A few weeks ago, Ben pointed out that two detainees had moved to drop their appeals, with their lawyer essentially calling the cases lost causes. Word comes today that the D.C.
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President Obama is in a legal and political pickle concerning his unilateral intervention in Libya. The mission is much harder than he anticipated, and it has taken much longer (months, not days) than h...
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I just got a look at a bootlegged copy of the Senate Armed Services Committee language on detainee matters. The following is a quick and dirty summary--which proceeds in the order the provisions appear i...
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The D.C. Circuit Court this morning handed down two opinions that may be of interest to Lawfare readers.
In Ali v. Rumsfeld, Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson delivered the opinion which affirmed the distri...
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Bobby is quoted in this MSNBC article covering the story that the White House rejected Justice Department advice over the U.S. intervention in Libya. For those who just can't get enough of Bobby, he will...
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Charlie Savage reports this morning: “Since the United States handed control of the air war in Libya to NATO in early April, American warplanes have struck at Libyan air defenses about 60 times, and rem...
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I've written a relatively brief primer on the application of the War Powers Resolution "clock" to Operation Unified Protector (i.e., the war in Libya), and have posted it at Brookings. After detailed co...
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The New York Times today surveys the current and prospective uses of drones in warfare.
Plans are in the works for the House to vote on limiting funding for U.S.
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Lawfare's new book review section is now live. Reviews will appear as a regular posts, but the most recent reviews will also show up listed on the side bar. A page with all of the reviews can be found by...
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The Senate Armed Services Committee announced Friday that it had completed its markup of the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2012.
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Lawfare is currently undergoing some technical upgrades to enable our new book review section. The section, as you will see on the sidebar, now exists, but it is empty. That will change as soon as we iro...
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The president set aside the views of Defense Department and Justice Department lawyers on a critical War Powers Resolution question regarding U.S. operations in Libya.
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The Washington Post and NPR report that the 13-year old case against Osama bin Laden has been dismissed.
The Post says that:
The government filing lists bin Laden's alleged crimes, and then states: "On...
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I noted recently that federal prosecutors have indicted a pair of men in Kentucky in connection with the insurgency in Iraq, noting that the situation might raise questions regarding the extent to which ...
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