THE PRESIDENT:  Good evening.  Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda, and a t...

Yesterday the public version of the government's response brief in Khan v. Obama (No. 10-5306), a Guantanamo habeas case currently pending before the D.C. Circuit, became available. In this case, petitio...

This afternoon, in connection with FOIA litigation by the ACLU, the Department of Justice released this May 2004 memorandum that I wrote as head of the Office of Legal Counsel about a certain surveillanc...

Al-Bahlul (though not Hamdan, so far as I know) has filed a reply brief in relation to the en banc CMCR proceedings (oral argument this morning).  The brief is posted here.

The CMCR has released handy "preview" documents for tomorrow's en banc proceedings in al-Bahlul and Hamdan.  They give bios for all the judges, list the attorneys involved, give a summary of the issues, ...

The public merits briefing in Almerfedi v. Obama (No.

On February 24th, as directed by the en banc Court of Military Commission Review, the appellants in al Bahlul and Hamdan filed briefs addressing two questions:

Counsel for the Kiyemba III petitioners, who filed a petition for certiorari with the Supreme Court a few months back, just filed their reply to the government's opposition brief. Relatedly, one of the ...

Here is the transcript of the Padilla hearing, which resulted in today's opinion.

Yesterday two new GTMO habeas briefs became publicly available. The first is the appellant's opening brief in Khan v. Obama (No. 10-5306). In this case, petitioner Shawali Khan appeals Judge John Bates'...

The respondent's merits brief recently became available in Ashcroft v. Al-Kidd, the case challenging whether John Ashcroft can be sued in his personal capacity for misuse of the material witness statute ...

This morning the Supreme Court denied cert. in Al Adahi v. Obama. Justice Kagan had unsurprisingly recused herself from the case. In this petition the detainee argued that the D.C.