Ben beat me to it, but this morning, the D.C Circuit issued a terse order removing United States v.

This is interesting. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has just entered the following docket order in the military commission appeal of Ali Hamza Ahmad al Bahlul: CLERK'S ORDER filed . . . , on the cou...

So reports Carol Rosenberg from the Miami Herald. Apparently--and, as the Washington Post reports, for technical reasons--the train crash in Ellicott City, Maryland somehow lead to a break in the intern...

The motions hearing that begins tomorrow in the 9/11 military commissions case is far too sprawling to preview motion by motion. Instead, we've broken it up thematically. Nearly all of the 25 motions on ...

Just so y'all know: the military commission expects a more orderly affair this time around, in United States v. Mohammed et al.  More orderly, at any rate, than May's rough-and-tumble arraignment.  How d...

Over at SCOTUSblog, there's a terrific symposium underway to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of The Least Dangerous Branch, Alex Bickel's seminal work on the Supreme Court and judicial review.

In Ben's non-Lawfare life, he runs the Brookings Institution's Campaign 2012 project, an event and paper series focusing on major issues the next president will face.  Most of these papers are not releva...

Here's a timely new article as the D.C. Circuit considers the military commission appeals in Hamdan and Bahlul--both of which challenge convictions based on, among other charges, material support for ter...

As Ben noted, this week and next will see one whopper of a hearing in the 9/11 case - two, really, the first spanning August 22-24 and the second August 26-28. Apropos, Judge James Pohl recently amended...