Pentagon General Counsel Jeh Johnson is giving a speech today at the Yale Law School. The prepared text is as follows:                           Dean’s Lecture at Yale Law School     “National security...

There apparently hasn't been any press about this yet, but there's a new lawsuit filed over Rear Admiral David Woods' order last year requiring all attorney-client communications at Guantanamo to  be rev...

Back in March 2011, House Armed Services Chairman Buck McKeon and Ranking Minority Member Adam Smith instructed the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations to examine transfers and releases of detai...

The reply brief in support of certiorari in Al-Madhwani v. Obama has been filed. We earlier posted Al Madhwani’s cert petition and the government's opposition to cert.

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The D.C. Circuit's affirmance of the District Court's judgment in Suleiman v. Obama, which we noted two weeks ago, is available here. Nothing terribly surprising in the opinion, which was written by Jud...

[The following guest post, from Geoff Corn (South Texas College of Law), extends the discussion of the Gotovina decision from Laurie Blanks's guest post yesterday]       On April 15, 2011, the Internatio...

No big surprise here: The D.C. Circuit has affirmed the judgment of the District Court in upholding the detention of Guantanamo detainee Abdul-Rahman Abdo Abulghaith Suleiman's appeal.

The government has filed its opposition to cert in the case of Al Madhwani v. Obama--a Guantanamo habeas case. Al Madhwani's cert petition seeks review of this DC Circuit opinion affirming his detention.

[Update: I've revised the text here to show that the Court did not actually say a warrant is always required in such cases] What a day.  Now we have a Supreme Court decision (United States v.

Journalist Shane Harris (senior writer for Washingtonian magazine and author of the well-received 2010 book, The Watchers) has written a briefing paper for the Hoover Institution's Task Force on National...

Here it is--redactions and all. Enjoy!