For those who haven't yet heard, DOJ announced earlier today that David Kris is stepping down as Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division.

The Obama administration does badly on each of the final three elements of the Human Rights First report card. On the first of these, the group writes, Grade: C Accountability and Oversight of U.S. Priv...

Steve Vladeck has a good post up noting that Justice Kagan has to recuse from most if not all the GTMO-related cases that are percolating up, and that as a result there's relatively little prospect of ge...

A few months ago, Bobby wrote a post about one of the Guantanamo habeas petitions currently pending at the Supreme Court, Al Odah v. Obama.  Fawzi Khalid Abdullah Fahad Al Odah, who lost his district cou...

I am perplexed by this category and grade: Grade: Incomplete Due Process in Afghanistan. Following recommendations from Human Rights First, the Obama administration in 2009 made important improvements to...

Yesterday the D.C. Circuit denied a petition for initial hearing en banc in Abdah v. Obama (No. 05-5224), a case involving the same type of pre-transfer notice orders as those at issue in Kiyemba II.

I'm very glad that President Obama has acted in a fashion that has won him a failing grade from Human Rights First in this category: Grade: F Accountability for Torture. Torture and conspiracy to commit...

Today Judge Leon released his brief unclassified opinion in Razak Ali v. Obama, a Guantanamo habeas merits case.  In the order Judge Leon denies the petition of Abdul Razak Ali, an Algerian who also goes...

Taking up the thread of Ben's project (recasting the HRF scorecard here, here, and here), I'd like to offer an alternative take on the administration's handling of the state secrets privilege.

The next several elements of the Human Rights First report card all deal with detention and trial. The first of these is the failing grade HRF gives to the Obama administration for not closing Guantanamo...

So here are the first two elements of the Human Rights First report card, how I would recast them, and the grades I would assign. HRF's initial element reads: Grade: A- Standing Firm Against Use of Tort...