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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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.
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For any Lawfare readers who may wish to attend and throw rotting fruit at me, I will be speaking today at this panel event at the New American Foundation.
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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...
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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...
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Human Rights First has published a report card, entitled "Assessing the Obama Administration’s Record of Compliance with the Rule of Law and Human Rights in National Security Policy." In reading it over,...
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Brookings has just released a paper I have been working on with two coauthors on rationalizing government collection authorities for data held in the hands of third parties. The paper, entitled "Rational...
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[This is the second of two posts from Tom Nachbar of the University of Virginia on the topic of lawfare. In addition to his role as a law professor at UVA, Tom has the distinction of serving as an Army ...
