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Document: Government Reply Brief in ACLU v. Mattis

Matthew Kahn
Monday, October 30, 2017, 5:41 PM

On Oct. 19, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia ordered the government to file within ten days a reply brief in American Civil Liberties Union v. Mattis. The court asked the government to describe why the ACLU lacks standing to file a habeas petition as a next friend on behalf of the unnamed U.S. citizen that the military is holding as an enemy combatant.

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On Oct. 19, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia ordered the government to file within ten days a reply brief in American Civil Liberties Union v. Mattis. The court asked the government to describe why the ACLU lacks standing to file a habeas petition as a next friend on behalf of the unnamed U.S. citizen that the military is holding as an enemy combatant. The government's brief is included below.

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Matthew Kahn is a third-year law student at Harvard Law School and a contributor at Lawfare. Prior to law school, he worked for two years as an associate editor of Lawfare and as a junior researcher at the Brookings Institution. He graduated from Georgetown University in 2017.

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