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Apropos of Judge Edwards: Petition for Certiorari Filed in Hussain
It is somewhat old news, though refreshed a bit in light of yesterday's Ali decision from the D.C. Circuit: on November 19, lawyers for another Guantanamo detainee, Abdul al Qader Ahmed Hussain, asked th... -
Judge Edwards's Odd Concurrence in Ali
Both Raffaela and Steve have already noted the D.C. Circuit's opinion yesterday in Abdul Razak Ali v. Obama, the latest Guantanamo habeas case. -
D.C. Circuit Affirms Habeas Denial in Ali v. Obama
As Steve already noted, the D.C. Circuit has affirmed the district court's denial of a writ of habeas corpus to Guantanamo detainee Abdul Razak Ali. We covered the oral argument this fall, in preview and... -
Judge Edwards and "Functionally Useless" Habeas
This morning's D.C. Circuit decision in Ali v. Obama is not exactly a shocker, given the court's ever-solidifying body of jurisprudence on the scope of the government's power to detain non-citizen terror... -
Eugene Robinson Gets it Wrong on Drones
Over at the Washington Post, columnist Eugene Robinson has a piece decrying the morality of drone strikes---a piece that expresses with an admirable economy of words nearly every conceptual error one can... -
Overview of Restrictions on Counsel in the Tsarnaev and 9/11 Cases
From the defense's standpoint, which are more onerous: restrictions on lawyers in civilian terrorism cases or restrictions used in military commissions? Accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev ... -
Bruce Riedel on the Mumbai Attacks, Five Years Later
My Brookings colleague Bruce Riedel has an essay up on the Brookings web site entitled, "Five Years On, Mumbai Terror Masterminds Still at Large." It opens: Five years ago, the city of Mumbai was atta... -
Whither Hamidullah? Briefs on Bagram Habeas Petition Status Post-Repatriation
The briefing regarding the mootness of the habeas appeal of the now-former Bagram detainee, Hamidullah, is before the D.C. Circuit. Last week the U.S. government informed Hamidullah's attorneys that he h... -
More Filings Re: Hunger-Striker’s Motion to Intervene in Aamer v. Obama
Three updates in Aamer v. Obama, the force-feeding case on appeal to the D.C. Circuit. On November 14, the government filed its opposition to Guantanamo detainee Imad Abdullah Hassan’s motion to interve... -
More on UN Detention Procedures for Military Operations
About a month ago, I asked what had happened to the UN’s effort to develop a set of standard operating procedures to govern detentions that arise during the course of UN operations. It appears that such... -
Bagram Detainees Repatriated to Pakistan, Is Habeas Appeal Moot?
A few weeks ago, Bobby and John reacted to a Washington Post story reporting that seven hundred Afghan detainees at Bagram Air Force Base whom the US transferred to Afghan custody earlier -
How Does the President's Policy on Lethal Force Apply in Yemen Today?
Long War Journal reports an airstrike on three AQAP fighters in Hadramout, Yemen, earlier today. By LWJ's count, this would be strike number 23 for the year (suggesting 2013 might fall short of 2012's h...
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