Over at SCOTUSBlog, Lyle Denniston has a piece on the Esmail access to counsel issue I wrote about Wednesday. It opens: For years, the federal government — in two administrations — has taken the view tha...

Get your memo in support here. Government response due on July 23, I hear. The original opinion striking down Section 1021 of the NDAA is available here. And no, I will not be participating in this pan...

Will Ali Mussa Daqduq soon be a free man?  It's looking more and more likely.  According to an AP report, a five-judge appellate panel in Iraq has affirmed a lower court's decision to dismiss charges aga...

I received the following email just now--the first time in my life, and I suspect the last, that I ever been confused with a certain blogger over at Salon.com: From: Lucas Vazquez To: wittes.lawfare@gma...

I received the following email from human rights lawyer David Remes about a filing he and his colleagues just made on Monday on behalf of his Guantanamo client Yasein Khasem Mohammad Esmail. Esmail lost ...

Now here is a rare sight…a transfer out of GTMO, in this case made possible by the individual’s completion of his plea-based military commission sentence.  From DOD’s press release: Detainee Transfer Ann...

Speaking of national security issues that seemed to have dropped off of the public’s radar screen, this headline beckons the reader to an article in The Atlantic, written by Andrew Cohen and posted over ...

The government has filed its opposition brief in United States v.

For those D.C.-area Lawfarers interested in continuing the conversation Ben, Bobby, and I had in June about Boumediene's legacy (or lack thereof), the Constitution Project is hosting what promises to be ...

Judge James Pohl has denied two motions to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction in United States v.

That's the word from The Miami Herald's Carol Rosenberg.  She also reports that the sworn-but-never-referred military commission charges against Faiz al Kandari, one of two Kuwaitis still held at Guantan...