I promised Thursday night to write up comments on the new legislation that has emerged in the Senate. Let me start with the proposal by Senator John McCain on detention rules. This bill, introduced by Se...

There has been much confusion in recent days about this statement in the Administration’s Fact Sheet on Guantanamo and Detainee Policy: “The U.S.

Several new bills were introduced in the Senate today by a shifting group of mostly-Republican senators.

Bruce Ackerman and Oona Hathaway argue at the Huffington Post that President Obama lacks the constitutional authority to impose a no-fly zone in Libya in the absence of congressional authorization.  Thei...

House Armed Services Chairman Buck McKeon lost no time in introducing legislation in response to the President’s Executive Order yesterday. Here is a quick and dirty analysis. A word of disclosure is in...

House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon announced today that he is introducing legislation "to address the Administration’s Executive Order and America’s terrorist prosecution and detention p...

“I think the international community’s is going to come together . . . to try to have a coordinated effort to bring pressure on Gadhafi,” said White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley, yesterday, on Meet th...

Habeas lawyer David Remes writes with the following comments in response to my post yesterday objecting to the Scalise Amendment: You're right that Congress shouldn't bar Ambassador Dan Fried and his sta...

Yesterday, I drew attention to the mindless House amendment designed to zero out funding for State Department efforts to resettle Guantanamo detainees. I have  a proposed name for this amendment: The Let...

House Republicans have seen the enemy, and it is Daniel Fried--the State Department special envoy who has been trotting around the globe for the last two years trying to persuade other countries to help ...