The Guantanamo lunch hour closes; the military commission resumes, court and counsel first turning their collective attention to some procedural odds and ends.  One item raised by Al-Nashiri’s Learned Co...

When recess ends, Kammen says he spoke with Al-Nashiri during the break.  For some reason---apparently there’s an unwritten rule about where the accused may stand---guards had then became agitated, becau...

It’s Al-Nashiri time, y’all.  The military judge, Army Col. James L. Pohl, calls the hearing to order.  The accused is here, along with his lawyers, save two: Capt. Daphne Jackson and Nancy Hollander (wh...

Your correspondent returns to Fort Meade, where Lawfare will take in a closed circuit broadcast, from Guantanamo, of pre-trial litigation in United States v. Al-Nashiri.   Throughout the day, we'll have ...

Here it is.  The remarks, by Chief Prosecutor Brig. Gen. Mark Martins, open thusly: Good evening.

The Supreme Court granted cert. today in Zivotofsky v. Clinton. In that case the D.C. Circuit, on remand from the Supreme Court, held that Section 214(d) of the 2003 Foreign Relations Authorization Act,...

As Ben noted this morning, the Second Circuit has ordered the release of a redacted version of the OLC memorandum that justified the targeted killing of U.S. citizen Anwar al-Awlaki.

I begin with a paragraph from Wikipedia: Self-organized criticality is one of a number of important discoveries made in statistical physics and related fields over the latter half of the 20th century, di...

Debate continues to swirl around the proposed transfer of control of the internet's naming function (IANA) to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).  But one of the grounds of c...

The Supreme Court this morning denied cert in the Guantanamo habeas case of Hussain v. Obama. A few weeks back, Marty Lederman flagged this case over the Just Security as likely to provoke at least one j...