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Peter Margulies of Roger Williams University School of Law writes in with the following response to David Cole's recent article on the Tarek Mehanna case:
While David Cole’s passionate defense of the Fir...
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Ken and Ben have recently commented on the national security speeches of Obama Administration officials, including most recently the remarks of CIA General Counsel Stephen Preston. As a former Bush Admi...
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Georgetown law professor David Cole has this disturbing article in the New York Review of Books Blog on the Tarek Mehanna case. I have not followed this case carefully in the district court, but this art...
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So Charlie Savage is reporting over at the New York Times:
The transfer [of the two Uighurs] leaves 169 detainees at the prison in Cuba, but the Obama administration notified Congress several days ago th...
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... El Salvador. [I've just changed the title to reflect the fact that other Uighur detainees still remain at GTMO]. From DOD's press release:
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
No. 291-12
April 19, 2012
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Was it clearly established in 2006-07 that GTMO detainees were entitled to the protections of the Fifth Amendment? A district judge in Washington State thinks so, adding that it was clearly established ...
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The government has filed its response to Abdulrahman Abdou Abou Al Ghaith Suleiman's petition for rehearing en banc in the D.C. Circuit.
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A judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Washington in Seattle has dismissed a Bivens action by a former Guantanamo detainee against former Defense Secretary Bob Gates. Adel Hassan Hamad is...
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Today the Supreme Court issued cert. determinations in two of the several Guantanamo-related petitions that have been filed this term. The Court denied both petitions, declining to hear either Abdah v.
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Rumor has it that sometime this week (perhaps as early as tomorrow), Congressmen Scott Rigell (R-VA) and Jeff Landry (R-LA) will introduce a bill titled the "Right to Habeas Corpus Act." In short, the bi...
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Last year, Bobby, Larkin, and I released a paper entitled "The Emerging Law of Detention 2.0: The Guantanamo Habeas Cases as Lawmaking." The paper promised to be a kind of living document:
Rather than si...
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I hope you aren't too sick of reading about Abd Al-Rahim Hussein Muhammad Abdu Al Nashiri, 'cuz there's more. No, this isn't from his military commission case.
