Today a D.C. Circuit panel of judges Garland, Griffith, and Kavanaugh reversed and remanded, with instructions to deny, Uthman v. Obama (Case No. 10-5235). Uthman is the merits appeal concerning habeas p...

President Obama’s speech was a full-throated defense of his deployment of U.S.

Today the D.C. Circuit granted the government's motion to dismiss as moot Farhi Saeed Bin Mohammed's Guantanamo habeas merits appeal. The government had appealed Judge Gladys Kessler's grant of Mohammed...

Koh said the intervention is legal under UNSCR 1973, and that the administration had complied with the WPR. 

The major significance of the FBI's Miranda memo, in my view, having now read it, is two-fold. First, it essentially states a policy of exploiting fully the Quarles public safety exception to Miranda in ...

Charlie Savage of the New York Times has posted the text of the FBI's new guidance on Miranda. I'll post thoughts after I've had a chance to digest it.

In the last few days several smart people have disagreed with my argument in favor of the constitutionality of the Libya intervention.  This is a perennial debate that arises every time the President thr...

The other day, Bobby posted a link to the the Second Circuit’s recent decision in Amnesty International v.

A few thoughts worth bearing in mind in light of the FBI “guidance” memo Ben describes below and the considerable attention it is generating. There is a tendency in this debate to conflate rules of evid...

Courtesy of the invaluable Secrecy News: No-Fly Zones: Strategic, Operational, and Legal Considerations for Congress Declarations of War and Authorizations for the Use of Military Force: Historical Bac...