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Michael Stransky’s email led me to reread the questions Charlie Savage asked Senators Obama and Clinton in late 2007. The question and answers are worth considering in full. Savage asked:
In what circu...
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Anthony Arend (Georgetown) has the text of UNSCR 1973, which among other things authorizes a no-fly zone for Libya (and possibly more, though it explicitly does not authorize any "occupation" forces). H...
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The following is my best attempt to summarize some of the arguments made at this morning's oral argument in United States v. Al Bahlul. This argument--audio for which is here--stood in considerable contr...
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The U.N.
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In anticipation of the growing likelihood of some form of U.S.
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I am pleased to announce the launching of the Comment OR Vote! campaign, which I consider to be the most important work I have ever done. Readers of this blog know how we feel about the scourge of Intern...
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The audio from today's oral arguments at the CMCR is available here (for the Hamdan argument) and here (for the al-Bahlul argument). Be forewarned that these are hefty files (if I recall correctly, aroun...
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Al-Bahlul (though not Hamdan, so far as I know) has filed a reply brief in relation to the en banc CMCR proceedings (oral argument this morning). The brief is posted here.
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As promised yesterday, I’m posting a short overview of the arguments in the government’s briefs to the en banc CMCR in al-Bahlul and Hamdan (click here for an earlier post doing the same for the appellan...
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The CMCR has released handy "preview" documents for tomorrow's en banc proceedings in al-Bahlul and Hamdan. They give bios for all the judges, list the attorneys involved, give a summary of the issues, ...
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(By Benjamin Wittes and Larkin Reynolds) This summary is going to be short--short and obscure. The reason is that Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson opened today's arguments by announcing that almost none of ...
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The en banc Court of Military Commission Review will hear oral argument this Thursday in al-Bahlul and Hamdan. These cases are critical to the future of the military commission system. They call into q...
