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Clive Walker, a professor of law at the University of Leeds, responds to the following comment in my Rahmatullah post: "It’s funny how courts discover deference when they realize that they have no power ...

...is entitled "Ben Wittes' Appalling Take on Rahmatullah." I wonder what he really thinks, though.

It is always an awkward spectacle when a court has to climb down, having issued an opinion that it has no real power to effectuate. That's what has now happened in the British Court of Appeals in the cas...

Fayiz Mohammad Al Kandari, a Guantanamo detainee, has filed a petition for a writ of certiorari in his habeas case. This comes after the D.C. Circuit denied his petition for en banc review in late Januar...

This just in: the Office of Chief Defense Counsel in the Military Commissions asked the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers' Ethics Advisory Committee for an advisory opinion on whether defe...

Ben's two questions in response to my post yesterday on the D.C.

Steve is quite right that yesterday's decision in Al Zahrani is no surprise.

Given Ben's report on the oral argument, today's fairly cryptic D.C. Circuit opinion in al-Zahrani v. Rodriguez, throwing out a damages suit arising out of the deaths of several inmates at Guantanamo, is...

The complaint against Amine El Khalifi is posted here.  What follows is the description from DOJ’s press release: WASHINGTON – A 29 year-old man residing in Alexandria, Va., was arrested today for all...

Over at the Document Exploitation blog, Douglas Cox of the CUNY Law School has this very interesting post on redactions in the Alsabri Guantanamo habeas case--which was decided at the District Court leve...

NPR had a story today concerning the process of selecting between civilian and military commission prosecution options.  It's an important topic.  Unfortunately, the story included the following mistaken...