U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in New York has granted attorneys for terrorism defendant Sulaiman Abu Gayth access, under controlled circumstances, to one Khalid Sheikh Mohammed---to whom they will get...

Today D.C. Circuit Judges David Tatel, Janice Rogers Brown, and A. Raymond Randolph will hear oral arguments in Al Laithi v. Rumsfeld.

Over the weekend, I blogged over at Just Security about the al-Iraqi case pending before the military commissions at Guantánamo—and, in particular, Saturday’s New York Times story reporting that the gove...

It's a snowy day here at the Fort Meade CCTV facility.  Lawfare's in the house, for the first of this eight-day, pre-trial motions hearing in United States v. Al-Nashiri.  Same format as always: dispatch...

At one level, the D.C. Circuit's decision this week in Aamer v. Obama on Guantanamo hunger strikes probably surprised nobody. As expected, the D.C. Circuit upheld the two district court decision to deny ...

The panel's decision in the closely-watched case of Aamer v. Obama was handed down this morning.  The majority opinion opens: TATEL, Circuit Judge: Petitioners Ahmed Belbacha, Abu Dhiab, and Shaker Aame...

Over at Politico, Josh Gerstein has an interesting piece on the Ali piracy case, and its potential implications for terrorism cases.  The article---which quotes Jen Daskal and Cully Stimson, among others...

That's the word from Guantanamo.  We hope to have an updated schedule for the case soon; it looks like the next pre-trial session will be convened in April.

Ordinarily, on a day like today, yours truly would remind the Interwebs’ military commission-watchers of a pretrial hearing, next week, in the 9/11 case.  Usually I would make a plug for Lawfare’s covera...

That's the gist of  today's ruling in this terrorism case, which is now pending in the Northern District of Illinois.  The order opens as follows: Defendant Adel Daoud is charged with attempting to use ...

The D.C. Circuit, in an exceedingly brief and quickly-issued per curiam judgment, has affirmed the district court's denial of Obaydullah's motion regarding newly-discovered evidence related to his habeas...

The long-running habeas case of