Kammen turns from the questions he would have asked to the substance of his motion for Judge Pohl’s recusal and disqualification - specifically, to whether Judge Pohl's retirement benefits pose a conflic...

Learned Counsel Richard Kammen starts the disqualification  rodeo with a request to ask additional voir dire questions of the court.

The hearing begins at 8:59 am, when Military Judge James Pohl walks into the courtroom, resplendent in his black robes. He looks the picture of justice itself, and he's all ready to hear . . . a motion t...

At this week's Al Nashiri military commission motions hearing, we're going to try something new. The blow-by-blow coverage we have been doing in the past has gotten a little bit overwhelming, both to pro...

Here’s your off-the-cuff read-out of this morning’s hearing before U.S. District Judge John Bates in Al-Maqaleh v. Gates and Hamidullah v. Obama, better known as the “can we get a little GTMO-style habea...

Folks, a reminder that Ben and I will be making the scene tomorrow at Fort Meade's CCTV facility, and reporting on the upcoming motions session in United States v. Al-Nashiri.  The session is set to begi...

That's the word from defense counsel James Connell III: the military commission has granted the defense's request and rescheduled the August 8-12 motions session for August 22-26.  In seeking the continu...

Kevin Heller writes in with the following observation in response to my post yesterday on Syria/LOAC: I liked your post on Syria and the ICRC, but this statement gave me pause: "The ICRC’s past and prese...

In today's Washington Post, the paper reports that the United States has missed a statutory deadline of July 1, 2012 that required the government to scan all inbound cargo containers for radioactive mate...

As Ben noted last month, Judge Bates recently has shown some interest in possibly moving the Boumediene-at-Bagram case, Al Maqaleh v. Rumsfeld, along toward a resolution.  After several very quiet months...

[Update: a responsive post from ICRC's Daniel Cahen is here, and ones from Kevin Heller and Gabor Rona are here and here] Many papers and sites are today highlighting the fact that the ICRC has stated p...