The motions hearing that begins tomorrow in the 9/11 military commissions case is far too sprawling to preview motion by motion. Instead, we've broken it up thematically. Nearly all of the 25 motions on ...

Over at SCOTUSblog, there's a terrific symposium underway to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of The Least Dangerous Branch, Alex Bickel's seminal work on the Supreme Court and judicial review.

Here’s your read-out on this morning’s oral argument, before Chief Judge Royce Lamberth, in what Lawfarers have come to know as the Guantanamo counsel access dispute.  (Background can be found here, here...

David Remes, an attorney for Guantanamo habeas petitioners Uthman and Esmail, has sent in this overview of the ongoing Guantanamo counsel access dispute. In brief: Remes and others recently objected to ...

This just in: the last words (for a few days, anyway) in the Guantanamo attorney-client access dispute now pending before Chief Judge Royce Lamberth of the U.S.

From Courthouse New Service:  Invoking the mass detention of Japanese-Americans during World War II, a federal judge on Tuesday appeared ready to uphold her injunction against the law that lets the U.S. ...

I am on vacation, and blogging only minimally, so I missed this week's hearing before Judge Katherine Forrest on the plaintiff's request for a permanent injunction in Hedges. Seeing as how the argument t...

The Justice Department today filed its response to a motion, in which certain Guantanamo detainees had challenged the Department's attempt to regulate the detainees' access to their attorneys.

Just noticed this: It seems that the Open Society Foundations has brought suit in the European Court of Human Rights against at least two Eastern European countries on behalf of suspected USS Cole bomber...

I am normally pretty good about keeping up with my Lawfare-related email, but sometimes, an important emails slips through the cracks. Andrew Kent of Fordham Law School sent me this comment on my post on...

The plaintiffs have filed their reply in support of their request for a permanent injunction in the case of Hedges v. Obama.