I find myself sympathetic to both Carrie and Steve on FISA oversight.

Last Tuesday, Judge Vitaliano of the Eastern District of New York dismissed a FOIA suit seeking access to NSC records about the drone program.

Earlier today, the government filed its response to Guantanamo detainee Mukhtar Yahia Naji al Warafi's petition for rehearing en banc before the D.C.

Some interesting terrorism-prosecution developments over the past few days that are worth noting. United States v. Mohammed (S.D. Fla.) First, a pair of men (one leaving in Kenya, and the other--who hap...

Monday's ruling in United States v.

"Does it really matter, from a legal perspective, whether the U.S.

The D.C. Circuit today scheduled oral argument in Aamer v. Obama, a Guantanamo hunger strike case.  (The court recently refused to the petitioners' request for an emergency injunction against forced-feed...

In one of the first lower court decisions since the Supreme Court's somewhat opaque decision in Kiobel in June, a court in the Northern District of Alabama last week dismissed a suit brought under the Al...

Thanks to his "sur-reply", I finally understand the premise of Peter Margulies’s argument—and his amicus brief—in al Bahlul with regard to why the en banc D.C. Circuit can affirm Bahlul’s conspiracy conv...

That's the essence of yesterday's order from the D.C. Circuit.