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Justice Department Response on GTMO Counsel Access
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. -
Nashiri Litigation in the ECHR
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... -
Leaks Legislation Update
I've been less than on the ball about covering the Senate Intelligence Committee's new anti-leak legislation. Here's the bill text. Here's a good summary by Steve Aftergood over at Secrecy News. -
Andrew Kent on Al Aulaqi and <em>Bivens</em>
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... -
Shirin Sinnar on <em>Latif v. Holder</em>
No, not Latif the Guantanamo habeas case. This Latif is a recent 9th Circuit decision which I had missed until Shirin Sinnar of Stanford Law School sent me the following the other day: In a little notice... -
Reply in Support of Permanent Injunction Filed in Hedges
The plaintiffs have filed their reply in support of their request for a permanent injunction in the case of Hedges v. Obama. -
On Continued Counsel Access at Gitmo and the Government's Filing
Wells posted yesterday the government's filing on the question of continued access to counsel for Guantanamo detainees who have lost their habeas cases. I have now read through the motion, and I have to ... -
Shane Harris on Total Information Awareness and Colorado
As soon as I saw this Wall Street Journal oped yesterday from Holman W. Jenkins, Jr., I thought to myself--and said to Ritika--we need to hear from Shane Harris on this. Now we have. Jenkins had suggest... -
Government's Response On GTMO Counsel Access
Apparently prompted by David Remes' motion regarding GTMO counsel access issues in Esmail [h/t Josh Gerstein at Politico], the government now has filed its own motion. I've only glanced at the new filin... -
STOCK Act Endangers National Security and Safety of Executive Branch Officials
In March, Congress passed the Stop Insider Trading in Congressional Knowledge Act (the STOCK Act), which was intended to prevent members of Congress from trading in securities based on non-public informa... -
Bivens and/as Immunity: Richard Klingler Responds on Al-Aulaqi--and I Reply
I received the following response from Richard Klingler to my ACSblog post on Monday re: the Al-Aulaqi suit and Bivens, and thought I'd post it in its entirety (below the fold) before replying (also belo... -
Supplemental Briefing on Bagram Jurisdiction
Following last week's motions hearing in Maqaleh and Hamidullah, the cases seeking habeas jurisdiction over the detention facility at Bagram, the petitioners in Maqaleh have filed a supplemental brief ar...
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