Today, the Brookings Institution released a lengthy paper my colleague Daniel Byman and I have been working on for some time, entitled "Tools and Tradeoffs: Confronting U.S. Citizen Terrorist Suspects Ab...

Despite the day (TGIF!), the weather (95 degrees and rising), and other developing national security news, the E. Barrett Prettyman Courthouse security checkpoint was brimming with people primed to hear ...

Tomorrow morning, Judge Rosemary Collyer of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia will hear arguments on the government's motion to dismiss in Al-Aulaqi v. Panetta. The lawsuit was filed l...

The opinion, which I've only now begun to skim, is here.  From the decision's opening paragraphs:  On December 31, 2011, President Obama signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal...

Judge Rosemary Collyer today denied the three remaining motions for a preliminary injunction against force feeding at Guantanamo, concluding that she lacked jurisdiction over the motions.

It's a battle over the latest case law in Hamad v. Gates,  a GTMO-related appeal now awaiting decision from the Ninth Circuit. After oral argument on June 5, the government noted certain supplemental au...

Last Friday afternoon, while many people were enjoying a long July 4th weekend, the Obama Administration quietly filed a remarkably strong amicus brief  urging the Supreme Court to reverse the Ninth Circ...

Readers will recall Monday's order by District Court Judge Gladys Kessler dismissing, on jurisdictional grounds, one of four GTMO detainees' motions for an injunction to stop force feeding.

I've been waiting for a while for a detainee to make this argument: The transfer provisions of the NDAA violate the Commander in Chief clause.