I have little to add to Jack's excellent post yesterday about Charlie Savage's fascinating New York Times story on the latest dispute within the administration on the scope and reach of the AUMF. But I d...

An update: we've attended today's oral argument in Suleiman v. Obama, at the D.C. Circuit.  For scheduling reasons, however, we'll have to delay posting a recap of the argument until Monday.  Stay tuned ...

Here is the prepared text, released by the White House, of John Brennan's speech at the Harvard Law School-Brookings conference now under way in Cambridge. I will post video, including of the very intere...

It looks like I missed a habeas decision a few weeks ago. According to a docket entry of which I only became aware this morning, federal district Judge Royce Lamberth has ruled on the remand in the case ...

That's what Dylan Boyd pled to today.  It's quite a mouthful, but if you go through it slowly it does actually prove coherent--though also good fodder for a criminal law exam....  In any event, from the ...

As noted previously, I testified in late July before House Armed Services regarding detention policy, with a focus on the Warsame situation.  I've seen received a handful of QFRs from committee members, ...

The next episode in the D.C. Circuit’s Guantanamo detention saga: Suleiman v. Obama (Case No. 10-5292), an appeal set for oral argument this Friday before the D.C. Circuit.

DOJ had a heck of a good run in terorrism and national security cases over the past seven days, including three sets of guilty please plus a hefty sentence in another case.  The details appear below: * ...

 Steve Vladeck is a professor of law (and Associate Dean for Scholarship) at American University Washington College of Law.  Steve is the author of many terrific articles relating to national security an...

The U.S. Court of Military Commission Review yesterday evening affirmed the conviction and life sentence of Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman Al Bahlul, an Al Qaeda media propagandist. I have not yet read the 139-...