While the manhunt for one of the Boston bombing suspects was underway Friday, Susan and I wrote up this short annotated bibliography linking to pertinent resources about the conflicts in Chechnya and Kyr...

The Miranda issue is over.  As Wells noted earlier, Tsarnaev made his initial appearance before a magistrate judge, at the hospital, and at that time the judge informed Tsarnaev of his right to remain si...

There will be no shortage of charges in the indictment that will issue against Tsarnaev shortly.  Many if not most will be ordinary violent-crime charges rather than terrorism-specific ones--though they'...

The following guest post is from Professor Geoffrey Corn (South Texas College of Law).  While there is still much we do not know regarding the Boston marathon bombings, there is enough information (and ...

Sens. Lindsey Graham and John McCain were quick out of the box last night in declaring that the Obama administration should hold Dzhokar Tsarnaev in military detention: Now that the suspect is in custody...

Unless there is good reason to believe that the Tsarnaev brothers were acting as agents of al Qaeda or some other AUMF-covered group, talk of putting Dzhokar Tsarnaev into military custody as an enemy co...

We're reposting our Twitter feed of reliable sources on the manhunt that's ongoing in Boston right now. As with last time: "This does not mean that everything they are saying will turn out to be correct....

It has been widely reported that the two prime suspects in the Boston marathon bombings---one who was killed in a shootout early this morning---are ethnic Chechens.

. . . where one of the Boston Marathon suspects is dead and the other is on murderous rampage: It is very important that the remaining suspect be taken alive. The New York Times has identified the two s...