I have thus far stayed fairly mum on the FY2013 National Defense Authorization Act, if for no other reason than the 150 exams (now 80) that I have to grade.

As usual, SCOTUSblog has a helpful post summarizing some of the key petitions for certiorari that the Supreme Court's nine Justices are set to review at their Conference this Friday. I just thought I'd f...

As Bobby noted previously, Rep. Adam Smith and others are proposing amendments to this year's NDAA that would make certain changes to the detention-related provisions implemented by last year's NDAA.  Am...

An important story from Ben Weiser at the New York Times, from this morning, describes an interesting new development in the prosecution of Mohamed Ibrahim Ahmed--a case that receives little attention, b...

Writing at Foreign Policy, Chris Rogers of Open Society Foundations criticizes Afghanistan's plans for a non-criminal detention system (something occurring as part of the process of the U.S. turnover of ...

Just in from the Congressional Research Service, this report compares the rights of defendants tried in military commissions to those tried in federal criminal court. Presumably because of the commenceme...

Back in March, I posted a guest post by Haridimos Thravalos on the history of conspiracy prosecutions in military commissions.

Bobby joined Charlie Savage and Jack Healy in querying here whether the U.S. Government might consider asking the Iraqis to extradite Lebanese national Ali Musa Daqduq to the United States.

Whatever else one might say about Fourth Circuit Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III, I think it's safe to describe him as one of the leading contemporary advocates of judicial restraint on the federal appella...

A three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a District Court judgment in favor of the National Security Agency in a case brought by the Electronic Privacy Information Center und...