Well, this no doubt will contribute the burgeoning conversation about the pros and cons of sting operations. The criminal complaint is here.  From the press release: BALTIMORE - Antonio Martinez, aka  Mu...

Rounding out the public merits briefs in Uthman v. Obama, yesterday the government's public reply brief became available.  Below we link to that brief, the other two public merits briefs, and Judge Henry...

(hat tip: Charlie Dunlap)  OFAC has issued a final rule amending the TSR and GTSR sanction regimes to expand the options for designated entities to pay for certain legal services.  Presumably this is at ...

[Update: Josh Gerstein at Politico reports that the White House has now expressed its opposition at least to section 1116, raising a question as to whether this will sail through easily after all.] Jack...

Five thoughts on Judge Bates' Al Aulaqi decision: First, as far as I'm concerned, there is really only one surprising thing about the decision, whose holdings any Lawfare reader could have anticipated r...

Earlier this year Congress required the DNI to make publicly available unclassified summaries of information about the recidivism of released GTMO detainees as well as an assessment of such detainees’ li...

Judge Bates wrote a solid, careful, and in my view persuasive opinion in al-Aulaqi.  The opinion is clearly a victory for the government.  But it was not without small victories for ACLU, CCR, and others...

Don't have time to read the 83-page opinion in Al-Aulaqi?  Here are the key points in outline format, sans commentary: I. Does Al-Aulaqi’s father have standing to assert his interests? A.

I wonder how many media outlets that misleadingly made the government's invocation of the state secrets privilege the central feature of their coverage of its arguments will eat crow in light of Judge Ba...

Jacob Bronsther, a third-year student at NYU Law School, who spent time as a Fulbright Scholar studying the the Muslim community in Mauritius, sent Brig. Gen. Mark Martins comments on his guest posts, wh...