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As usual, SCOTUSblog has a helpful post summarizing some of the key petitions for certiorari that the Supreme Court's nine Justices are set to review at their Conference this Friday. I just thought I'd f...
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As Bobby noted previously, Rep. Adam Smith and others are proposing amendments to this year's NDAA that would make certain changes to the detention-related provisions implemented by last year's NDAA. Am...
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An important story from Ben Weiser at the New York Times, from this morning, describes an interesting new development in the prosecution of Mohamed Ibrahim Ahmed--a case that receives little attention, b...
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Writing at Foreign Policy, Chris Rogers of Open Society Foundations criticizes Afghanistan's plans for a non-criminal detention system (something occurring as part of the process of the U.S. turnover of ...
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Just in from the Congressional Research Service, this report compares the rights of defendants tried in military commissions to those tried in federal criminal court. Presumably because of the commenceme...
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Bobby joined Charlie Savage and Jack Healy in querying here whether the U.S. Government might consider asking the Iraqis to extradite Lebanese national Ali Musa Daqduq to the United States.
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A quick note updating readers on the progress of the draft NDAA FY'13: Chairman McKeon's bill passed HASC last night in the wee hours. Next stop: the floor, where we are likely to see, among other thin...
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I have now read the new Seton Hall report to which I linked earlier and I have to say: I am perplexed.
The report's thesis, in a nutshell, seems to boil down to two propositions: that the D.C. Circuit's...
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I only just noticed this new report by Mark Denbeaux, Jonathan Hafetz, and an extensive list of others at the Seton Hall University School of Law, entitled "No Hearing Habeas: D.C. Circuit Restricts Mean...
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Yeesh. Yesterday I noted that Chairman McKeon's NDAA draft includes a "Daqduq rule" -- i.e., a provision requiring the Defense Department to notify Congress before transferring certain detainees held at...
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HASC Chairman Buck McKeon today released a draft NDAA for FY '13, which will head to the full committee for markup on the 9th. The text of the bill as it currently stands is posted here, McKeon's announ...
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Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins gave the following statement to the press this morning:
Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins
Remarks at Guantanamo Bay
6 May 2012
