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Signing Statement on the Budget Bill
A dispatch from the Lawfare North Pole: the White House seems to be using more aggressive language, in opposing Congress’s recent efforts to limit the executive branch’s authority over detainee affairs. ... -
Covering NSL Issues in First-Year Constitutional Law
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New York Times Files Suit Against DOJ in Pursuit of al-Aulaqi Memo
The New York Times and columnists Charlie Savage and Scott Shane have filed suit under the Freedom of Information Act against the Department of Justice for access to the OLC memo authorizing the targeted... -
Stephen Voss Responds to Our FAQ
Stephen Voss, a philosophy professor at Bogazici University in Istanbul, writes in with the following response to Bobby's and my NDAA FAQ: The current NDAA contains, in section 1021, legislation that may... -
Joanne Mariner on the NDAA
Joanne Mariner of Hunter College's Human Rights Program, writing at Justicia.com, has this lengthy analysis of the NDAA from a human rights and civil liberties point of view. It is the first half of a tw... -
Raha Wala Writes His Own FAQ
Raha Wala of Human Rights First has rewritten Bobby and my NDAA FAQ. Here is his very commendable effort: While I agree that much of he public discussion of the NDAA provisions has been hyperbolic, I als... -
Seema Saifee on Obama's Veto Backdown
As Lawfare readers know only too well, I don't engage with He Who Must Not Be Named on this Blog. I do, however, engage with Seema Saifee, who represents four Guantanamo Uighurs (three of whom are no lon... -
NDAA FAQ: A Guide for the Perplexed
The volume of sheer, unadulterated nonsense zipping around the internet about the NDAA boggles the mind. There was a time--only a few months ago--when the NDAA detention provisions were the obscure provi... -
Senate Debate on the NDAA Conference Report
In our final installment of NDAA transcripts, we bring you the Senate's debate on December 15th on the conference report's detention provisions. Here are some highlights: Senators Carl Levin and John M... -
David Cole on President Obama's Backoff on the NDAA
David Cole, writing in the New York Review of Books blog, has this essay on the President's decision not to veto the NDAA. Key passage: the law as amended continues to contain extraordinarily dangerous p... -
Transcript of House Debate on the NDAA
You can read the detention-specific portions of the December 14th House debate on the conference report here. Here are some highlights: Congressman Alcee Hastings (D-FL) presented a strident oppositio... -
An Initial Thought on the Due Process Guarantee Act
It may surprise some readers, but I find myself oddly attracted to the Due Process Guarantee Act--which Steve described last night. The bill is cast as a response to the NDAA detention authorization prov...
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