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I was just reading a piece by Adam Serwer (Mother Jones) regarding the NDAA detainee provisions, and came across this pithy line from Ben:
"If Congress is going to take the president seriously, it has to...
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The Senate's new NDAA language changes almost nothing. Yes, there are some technical adjustments, which Bobby has described in detail, and some of these may serve to lessen slightly the irrational burden...
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Two weeks ago, I had a few posts discussing the scope of detention authority authorized under section 1031 of the then-pending SASC version of the NDAA, in response to Steve Vladeck's concern that the la...
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On Tuesday, the Senate Armed Services Committee passed a new version of the controversial detainee provisions to be included in the National Defense Authorization Act for FY ’12. The text is here, thanks...
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Further to the exchange between myself and Steve Vladeck regarding Section 1031 of the SASC version of the NDAA FY '12, Raha Wala (Human Rights First) writes in with the following thoughtful comments and...
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Following up on my last post regarding section 1031 of the NDAA FY 12 and the future of detention authority, I want to draw attention to what strikes me as a huge and looming issue--but one that is getti...
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On his new blog, The Loyal Opposition, New York Times Editorial Page Editor Andrew Rosenthal has this post arguing that "One particularly compelling reason [not to use military commissions] is that tribu...
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A response to Steve Vladeck's post on Section 1031 of the Senate version of the NDAA FY '12, which concerns detention authority under the 9/18/01 AUMF.
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Scott Horton has a thoughtful essay at Foreign Policy that argues the fall of Gaddafi should be seen “through the lens of the law” as a “Pyrrhic” victory. From the domestic law perspective, Horton maint...
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Here is the latest salvo in the debate relating to the NDAA provisions relating to detainees: Last week Chairman McKeon sent this 7-page letter to the White House responding to the administration's earli...
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May God bless their little souls. The poor dears really are trying. The New York Times editorial page has now corrected its correction.
This is getting meta, and this post will be incomprehensible to th...
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The latest public development in the long-running fight over the detention provisions in the National Defense Authorization Act occurred last Friday when a group of 13 Senate Democrats (all the Democrats...
