Over the last week, the Department of Justice has been busy filing responses to several of the Guantánamo detainees’ cert. petitions: It has submitted four briefs to the Supreme Court in the span of just...

This afternoon the D.C. Circuit responded to the government's request for a temporary stay in Almerfedi v. Obama by granting the motion.

As expected, today the government did appeal to the D.C. Circuit Judge Friedman's decision to deny its motion for a stay pending the merits appeal of Almerfedi v. Obama. The government wrote in its emerg...

On Thursday morning, a panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments in the latest in a long string of habeas appeals to make their way up the appellate chain: Masaab Al-Madhwani v. Bara...

More happened in Almerfedi v. Obama last week than just the release of the final public merits brief. Yesterday Judge Friedman denied the government's motion for a stay of the district court's order pend...

I have been meaning for some time to post thoughts on the recent habeas denial in the case of Mashour Abudllah Muqbel Alsabri. It has slipped, however, because the opinion by Judge Ricardo Urbina, at 60 ...

The meme has been floating about for some time: the D.C. Circuit--and, particularly, the evil Judge A. Raymond Randolph--is subverting habeas, fighting a rear-guard action against the rule of law, and tu...

At Monday's Brookings event on judicial nominations, Chief Judge Royce Lamberth of the D.C. District Court offered a few thoughts on the impact of judicial vacancies on the D.C.

Speaking of Al Warafi, I promised after the oral argument a few weeks back that I would reality-check my summary of the argument on a key point against the transcript of the argument when one became avai...

Ever since the D.C. Circuit last week handed down its per curiam opinionlet in Al Warafi, I have been puzzling over this brief, unpublished order. I have begun to think it may be more important that I in...

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...