Before the terms of Majid Khan's plea deal emerged, some conservatives were preemptively outraged by its reported terms. Marc Thiessen denounced as "astounding" what he called  "The idea that the Obama a...

Writing over at Forbes, Pepperdine law professor Gregory McNeal has this thoughtful piece about the President's policy directive. It contains some interesting ruminations on the breadth of some of the wa...

On February 29, Judge Kollar-Kotelly of the District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed a lawsuit brought under the Torture Victim Protection Act against President Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka, based...

Over at The Atlantic, Andrew Cohen offers this analysis of President Obama's implementation procedures for Section 1022 of the NDAA.

As predicted, a group of leading Senate Republicans (McCain, Hutchison, Grassley, Chambliss, Murkowski and Coats) have introduced an alternative cybersecurity bill that will be in direct competition with...

Sudan and newly-independent South Sudan have featured in many news stories over the last several years; a headline in today's Washington Post, for example, reads "South Sudan: Sudan bombed 2 oil wells in...

Someone pointed out to me yesterday that in the recent Al Kandari cert petition, there is exactly one secondary source site: a Lawfare post. (See pp. vii and p. 12). Neato.

In her news roundup for last Friday, Ritika briefly mentioned that a drone strike had killed four al-Shabab militants in Somalia.  The New York Times had also cursorily mentioned the strike in this shor...

While the experience is fresh, I thought I'd share some reflections on this morning's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the Due Process Guarantee Act.