[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.

What’s a habeas petitioner to do, if 1) current and former U.S.

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

District Judge Paul L.

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.

The government has filed its its opening brief in the Second Circuit Hedges appeal. The introduction reads: This suit is brought by a handful of journalists and activists who, based on their stated activ...

The D.C. Circuit Court's opinion that we've all been waiting for has come down. The D.C. Circuit has vacated Hamdan's conviction for material support for terrorism in the Military Commission and reversed...

Here's a transcript of Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's speech yesterday on cybersecurity in New York: Remarks by Secretary Panetta on Cybersecurity to the Business Executives for National Security, New...

This slipped by me on Friday, when I was in Cambridge plotting the next phase of Lawfare's expansion. The D.C. Circuit has issued an unredacted opinion in this case, Ameziane v. Obama, which actually cam...

Now available on the military commissions docket: this motion, filed earlier this week by a coalition of media organizations as "press intervenors."   In the just-unsealed filing, the group--which includ...

Briefing is now complete on the government’s motion to stay pending appeal in Hedges v. Obama.  (You’ll recall that a circuit judge already stayed the district court’s order temporarily, pending resoluti...