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On September 7, U.S. District Judge Christopher R. Cooper of the District of Columbia issued an opinion in the case of United States v. Abu Khatallah, granting in part and denying in part the Government’...
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On Monday, Justice Anthony Kennedy, in his capacity as the Circuit Justice for the Ninth Circuit, stayed a key portion of the Ninth Circuit’s order from last week regarding President Trump’s revised Refu...
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The Ninth Circuit held in a per curiam order on Thursday (summarized here) that, pending a definitive adjudication on the merits, refugees abroad with sponsorship assurances from U.S. resettlement agenci...
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The Justice Department filed a brief on Wednesday opposing the cert petition in Bahlul v. United States. Counsel for Ali Hamza Suliman al Bahlul filed the cert petition in March to seek review of an Octo...
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Late last week, the Second Circuit issued a long-awaited opinion in Doe v. Hagenbeck. The case deals with myriad claims brought forward by a former West Point Cadet, Jane Doe, against Lt. Gen. Franklin L...
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Since President Trump fired Jim Comey as FBI director, the FBI has received quite a bit of attention. More than 19.5 million people tuned in to watch former director Comey testify before the Senate Intel...
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The military commissions were busy last week in the case against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Walid bin Attash, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, Ammar al-Baluchi (referred to as Aziz Ali), and Mustafa Ahmad al Hawsawi, co...
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It has come as a great surprise to learn that most of my 45 years in Washington were not spent in honorable public service but, rather, as part of the “Deep State,” an evil cabal whose mission is to resi...
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Last December, Congress passed the Military Justice Act of 2016, which then-President Barack Obama subsequently signed.
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This summer, the cases of two cyber criminals posed a stark contrast in rehabilitation and recidivism.
Mark Vartanyan
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Military Commissions Chief Prosecutor Brigadier General Mark Martins released the following statement on Saturday on the occasion of last week's military commissions hearings in the case of Abd al Hadi a...