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The D.C. Circuit has handed down procedural orders in two Guantanamo detention cases.
The first grants a joint motion regarding Friday's oral argument in Khairkhwa v. Obama. The argument session will b...
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Now this is interesting: an amicus brief by retired military admirals and generals, on behalf of the appellant in Nashiri v.
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Over at the Weekly Standard, Thomas Jocelyn of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies has this piece on the repatriation to Canada of Omar Khadr. Jocelyn is angry over the myths the international left...
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Or, at least, that's what CTV News is reporting:
After years of detention at the U.S.
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For those following Section 11 of the STOCK Act, this afternoon President Obama signed S. 3625, which delays until December 8 the dangerous and short-sighted requirement in Section 11 of the STOCK Act th...
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Briefing is now complete on the government’s motion to stay pending appeal in Hedges v. Obama. (You’ll recall that a circuit judge already stayed the district court’s order temporarily, pending resoluti...
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The DoD has distributed a memo to its employees explaining its stance on Mark Owen's book No Easy Day, and I've got it right here (they even give the book an acronym!). It lays out guidelines for how Pen...
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Petitioners yesterday filed supplementary declarations and exhibits in Al Maqaleh, better known as the after-Boumediene-does-Guantanamo-habeas-jurisdiction-run-to-Bagram case.
During a hearing on the go...
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The following is a guest post from Chris Jenks. Chris formerly was a Judge Advocate and Chief of the International Law Branch at the U.S. Army’s Office of The Judge Advocate General. Now he is an assis...
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So we learn from Politico's Josh Gerstein, who filed this report yesterday.
Here's how Gerstein's piece begins:
The U.S.
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I had to restrain myself this morning at the D.C. Circuit from interrupting proceedings with an emergency request for an on-the-spot ruling in Wittes v. FAA---a case which has admittedly does not exist--...
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At the risk of tooting my own horn a bit, I am pleased to announce the publication of "Drones in U.S.