The document that will surely capture the lion’s share of the public’s attention---and rightly so---is the October 3, 2011 FISC opinion by Judge John D. Bates, then the presiding judge of the FISC.

Rather than starting with what I---or anyone else---think and believe about the remarkable cache of documents the intelligence community declassified yesterday, I thought we should begin with a detailed ...

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence is declassifying a large group of important documents pertaining to NSA surveillance programs under Section 702 of FISA. I will keep updating this list...

This afternoon, Judges Karen LeCraft Henderson, Janice Rogers Brown, and Thomas B. Griffith of the D.C. Circuit filed a per curiam order granting the government’s motion to stay the district court’s July...

The government has filed its reply in support of its July motion for a stay pending appeal in Hatim v. Obama.

The reply was filed yesterday by counsel for Guantanamo detainee.  En banc briefing in the appeal of his military commission conviction is now seemingly complete. In the reply's "Summary of Argument" se...

Three Guantanamo detainees filed their opening brief yesterday in Aamer v. Obama. Shaker Aamer, Nabil Hadjarab and Ahmed Belbacha are appealing the D.C. District Court’s denial of their motions for a pre...

Here's the New York Times reporter's petition for rehearing en banc in the case of United States v. Sterling.   It was filed yesterday. Readers will recall that last month a three-judge panel of the Fou...

Two amicus briefs were delivered today in the en banc phase of GTMO detainee Ali Hamza Ahmad Suleiman Al-Bahlul's appeal to the D.C. Circuit. The accused, as readers well know, was convicted by a militar...

The order entering the stay, by Circuit Judges Rogers, Brown, and Kavanaugh, is here.  It essentially pauses enforcement of last week's order, by Judge Royce Lamberth, that partially invalidated certain ...

It already had been quite a week in the GTMO habeas world.

A pretty strong signal from Judge Gladys Kessler, who today rejected GTMO detainee Jihad Dhiab's motion for a preliminary injunction to stop force feeding.