Someone pointed out to me yesterday that in the recent Al Kandari cert petition, there is exactly one secondary source site: a Lawfare post. (See pp. vii and p. 12). Neato.

In her news roundup for last Friday, Ritika briefly mentioned that a drone strike had killed four al-Shabab militants in Somalia.  The New York Times had also cursorily mentioned the strike in this shor...

While the experience is fresh, I thought I'd share some reflections on this morning's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the Due Process Guarantee Act.

Raffaela earlier posted the President's implementation procedures for Section 1022 of the NDAA--that is, the not-so-mandatory military detention provision. I have only had a chance to read it over quickl...

This just in from the Department of Justice: Today at 6:30 pm, the White House issued the following Fact Sheet and a Presidential Policy Directive that sets forth procedures implementing Section 1022 of ...

There's been a lot of buzz in the press on the plea bargain reached between Majid Khan and the prosecution in his Military Commission case--and a lot of it has focused on the mere four years before Khan ...

I've blogged before about S.

Clive Walker, a professor of law at the University of Leeds, responds to the following comment in my Rahmatullah post: "It’s funny how courts discover deference when they realize that they have no power ...

...is entitled "Ben Wittes' Appalling Take on Rahmatullah." I wonder what he really thinks, though.

It is always an awkward spectacle when a court has to climb down, having issued an opinion that it has no real power to effectuate. That's what has now happened in the British Court of Appeals in the cas...

Fayiz Mohammad Al Kandari, a Guantanamo detainee, has filed a petition for a writ of certiorari in his habeas case. This comes after the D.C. Circuit denied his petition for en banc review in late Januar...