On Thursday, lawyers for Abd Al Rahim Hussein Al-Nashiri filed their reply brief in Al-Nashiri v. MacDonald, a civil case now pending before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Al-...

The Secretary of Defense has released the attached memo on the implications of the fiscal cliff and sequestration on the Department of Defense. Read it here.

The government has filed its reply brief in Hedges.

A bunch of amicus briefs filed in Hedges---and a lot of red meat for NDAA-haters from that special libertarian land where Left and Right meet. Here's the Rutherford Institute, which argues that "The Nat...

The D.C. Circuit has handed down its latest Guantanamo habeas case, Khairkhwa v. Obama. The brief, unanimous opinion by Senior Judge A. Raymond Randolph for himself and Judges Judith Rogers and Merrick G...

To the day's tally of important national security law filings, add this: the appellees' brief in Hedges v. Obama.   The below comes from the brief's argument section: Comparing the text of the two enact...

[UPDATED 3:18 p.m.] Lawyers for military commission accused Ali Hamza Suliman Ahmad Al-Bahlul have filed their supplemental, what-do-we-make-of-Hamdan brief with the D.C. Circuit.  The government's respo...

The government yesterday filed a reply in support of its renewed motion for summary affirmance in Rimi et al. v.

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Vice Admiral (Retired) Bruce MacDonald, the Convening Authority for the military commissions at Guantanamo Bay, has filed his appellate brief in Al-Nashiri v.

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Attorneys for Senators John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and Kelly Ayotte---all members of the Senate Committee on Armed Services---have filed an amicus brief in support of the government in Hedges v.