My Brookings colleague Allan Friedman, a technology and cybersecurity expert, sent over this comment on the House's approval, yesterday, of the Cybersecurity Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act ("CIS...

That's the gist of this report, filed earlier today by Politico's Josh Gerstein: A federal judge declined Monday to take action on behalf of a hunger-striking prisoner at Guantanamo Bay whose attorneys s...

Now available in redacted form: the government's opposition brief and the defendant's reply in United States v. Ghailani, a criminal case arising from the 1998 bombing of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanz...

The House Intelligence Committee has released a new draft of the Cybersecurity Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act.  I think it is fair to say that the bill is becoming increasingly more moderate as ...

Yesterday, pursuant to Judge Thomas Hogan's recent order, lawyers for habeas petitioner Musa'ab Omar al-Madhwani filed a brief addressing the district court's jurisdiction to hear al-Madhwani's emergency...

Here are a bunch, which I should have included in my post this morning on Musa'ab Al Madhwani's emergency motion on clothing, temperature, and potable water: Declaration of Stephen N.

The United States has filed its appellate brief in the case of Al-Janko v.

Remember the Guantanamo detention case of Hentif v.

While some other stuff was going on yesterday, my friend Lindsay Harrison at Jenner & Block and I filed an amicus brief on behalf of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and in support of...

With Abraham Lincoln back in the news, the Federal Judicial Center has posted a series of neat documents about the suspension of habeas corpus and the Ex Parte Merryman case. Here's a brief history of th...

It is now available on the SSCI website.

David Nevin stands and says he recently received some documents--evidently copies of emails--regarding CAPT Welsh, our next witness, and his intended testimony on AE133.  The lawyer wants to read these b...