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As Ben says, there is a lot to talk about with respect to al-Aulaqi v. Panetta, a civil suit filed today by the ACLU and CCR in an attempt to obtain money damages for airstrikes conducted by the United S...
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The ACLU has filed suit over the deaths in drone strikes of three U.S. citizens: Anwar Al-Aulaqi, his 16-year-old son, and AQAP propagandist Samir Khan. The complaint is available here. The ACLU's press ...
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Ben already posted last week about the new battle a-brewing over the "Memorandum of Understanding" (MOU) that the Department of Justice is apparently requiring counsel in the Guantanamo habeas cases to s...
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Here’s your off-the-cuff read-out of this morning’s hearing before U.S. District Judge John Bates in Al-Maqaleh v. Gates and Hamidullah v. Obama, better known as the “can we get a little GTMO-style habea...
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As Ben noted last month, Judge Bates recently has shown some interest in possibly moving the Boumediene-at-Bagram case, Al Maqaleh v. Rumsfeld, along toward a resolution. After several very quiet months...
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Over at SCOTUSBlog, Lyle Denniston has a piece on the Esmail access to counsel issue I wrote about Wednesday. It opens:
For years, the federal government — in two administrations — has taken the view tha...
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Get your memo in support here. Government response due on July 23, I hear.
The original opinion striking down Section 1021 of the NDAA is available here.
And no, I will not be participating in this pan...
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Will Ali Mussa Daqduq soon be a free man? It's looking more and more likely. According to an AP report, a five-judge appellate panel in Iraq has affirmed a lower court's decision to dismiss charges aga...
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There seem to be many things habeas counsel might dislike about the proposed Memorandum of Understanding that DOJ has asked David Remes to sign. But like Ben, I’ll wait until I see the government’s resp...
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I received the following email just now--the first time in my life, and I suspect the last, that I ever been confused with a certain blogger over at Salon.com:
From: Lucas Vazquez
To: wittes.lawfare@gma...
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I received the following email from human rights lawyer David Remes about a filing he and his colleagues just made on Monday on behalf of his Guantanamo client Yasein Khasem Mohammad Esmail. Esmail lost ...
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Speaking of national security issues that seemed to have dropped off of the public’s radar screen, this headline beckons the reader to an article in The Atlantic, written by Andrew Cohen and posted over ...
