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On Monday, Senator Cruz maintained that the War Powers Resolution (WPR) clock had expired because 60 days had passed since the first air strikes against the Islamic State, which the President notified Co...
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In an unpublished per curiam opinion, Chief Judge Traxler and Judges Wilkinson and Motz of the Fourth Circuit today dismissed Ahmed Omar Abu Ali's bid to overturn the district court's 2012 order denying ...
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Petitioner Ali al-Bahlul filed his reply brief yesterday in Bahlul v. United States, the D.C.
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Below you’ll find a read-out on the first of a three-day, preliminary injunction hearing in the case of Guantanamo detainee and intermittent hunger-striker Abu Wa’El (Jihad) Dhiab.
The Syrian national’s...
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It's not just the same-sex marriage cases. The Supreme Court today also denied petitions for certiorari in a pair of cases we've been following. The first petition was from Tarek Mehanna, a Massachusetts...
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The First Amendment question in Judge Kessler’s opinion in support of her Order directing the videotapes of Abu Wa'el Dhiab's forced feedings to be unsealed (see Jane’s summary) is whether the public’s p...
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An important development today in Dhiab v. Obama: over the government's objections, D.C. District Court Judge Gladys Kessler has ordered the unsealing of secret videos that show Guantanamo Bay prisoner A...
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There has been much talk about the "Khorasan Group" over the past several weeks, including occasional sharp questions regarding its nature and provenance.
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A big Monday-morning quarterback question since ISIL began overrunning parts of Iraq as Iraqi military forces collapsed has been whether the United States should have kept in place a significant residual...
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Last Monday, I had 60 followers on Twitter. Today, I have more than 4,300. Not to brag or anything, but that's more than Benjamin Wittes; more than Bobby Chesney; more than Jack Goldsmith; more than my b...
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For the two people still following the exchange between me and Peter Margulies over the bottom-side briefing in the al Bahlul D.C.
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Benjamin Weiser of the New York Times has the scoop on the plea bargain, about which U.S.
