The Chief Prosecutor's full statement follows below: CHIEF PROSECUTOR MARK MARTINS REMARKS AT GUANTANAMO BAY 19 JULY 2012

We turn to the day’s final motion, AE97, regarding the defense’s request to compel the timely translation of documents into Arabic for Al-Nashiri.  The motion is brand-spanking new; the defense filed it ...

Again it is Reyes for the defense.  His subject?  The Convening Authority, the Constitution’s Appointments Clause, and the defense’s motion to dismiss on Appointments Clause grounds (AE87).  The Conveni...

Defense attorney Lt. Cdr. Stephen Reyes is up first for AE86---the motion to withdraw the charges because of an improper referral by the Convening Authority.  The issue is this, he says: ordinarily, the ...

Judge Pohl bids good morning to our Guantanamo courtroom audience (and thus, indirectly, to those of us in the CCTV facility cheap seats).  But wait: he’s not yet attired in his customary, authority-eman...

Coming to you live from Guantanamo, via Fort Meade CCTV: the third day of the motions session in United States v. Al-Nashiri.  As before, we'll have blog posts up in the "Events Coverage" section, with l...

Military Commissions Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins released a statement following the completion of yesterday's hearing in United States v. Al-Nashiri.

Given the track record of the Law of War revision project, smart money probably has to be on the ICRC, even with a 2015 estimate for the first volume in their new series (see here).  Of course, both proj...

It's turned out to be a very big news day in national security litigation land... In addition to the extensive coverage of Aulaqi v. Panetta (to which I hope to add some thoughts of my own later tonight)...

Over at the AEIdeas blog, Marc Thiessen asks derisively: “Why is the ACLU suiting Panetta, Petraus over Awlaki Killing—But Not President Obama?” He writes: if it’s accountability they want, then why isn...

In Power and Constraint, I argued (in a chapter summarized here) that the Center for Constitutional Rights litigation strategy for GTMO garnered crucial judicial support for GTMO detentions that in the e...

I have now read through the ACLU-CCR lawsuit on behalf of the Al-Aulaqi and Khan families. Here are my initial thoughts: First, this lawsuit does not suffer from the prohibitive standing problem that pl...