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Government's Response On GTMO Counsel Access

Wells Bennett
Thursday, July 26, 2012, 2:45 PM
Apparently prompted by David Remes' motion regarding GTMO counsel access issues in Esmail [h/t Josh Gerstein at Politico], the government now has filed its own motion. I've only glanced at the new filing, but it seems the government wants a single district judge to decide the counsel access question
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Apparently prompted by David Remes' motion regarding GTMO counsel access issues in Esmail [h/t Josh Gerstein at Politico], the government now has filed its own motion. I've only glanced at the new filing, but it seems the government wants a single district judge to decide the counsel access question, with that judge's ruling to govern not just in Esmail's, but in all completed habeas cases. I suspect we will have comments shortly.  Stay tuned.
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Wells C. Bennett was Managing Editor of Lawfare and a Fellow in National Security Law at the Brookings Institution. Before coming to Brookings, he was an Associate at Arnold & Porter LLP.
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