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You can read the detention-specific portions of the December 14th House debate on the conference report here.
Here are some highlights:
Congressman Alcee Hastings (D-FL) presented a strident oppositio...
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It may surprise some readers, but I find myself oddly attracted to the Due Process Guarantee Act--which Steve described last night. The bill is cast as a response to the NDAA detention authorization prov...
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Well that was fast...
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Last week, Nazul Gul and Adel Hassan Amad – both former Guantanamo detainees who were transferred by the United States to their home nations before their habeas petitions were resolved – sought a writ of...
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Breaking in Boston: animal rights activists today filed a First Amendment challenge to the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act ("AETA"), which reportedly makes it a "terrorism" crime, among other things, to ...
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The House has passed the conference version of the NDAA. It will go on to the Senate, probably coming up tomorrow (Thursday). With the White House veto threat lifted, the NDAA likely will be law in ver...
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Uthman Abdul Rahim Mohammed Uthman responds to the government's argument against his cert petition in his new reply brief, available here. It opens:
The petition in this case presents in stark terms the ...
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The White House has issued the following statement announcing that--and why--it will not veto the NDAA:
Statement from the Press Secretary on the NDAA Bill
We have been clear that “any bill that chall...
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Here is a letter from Congressman Adam Smith (D-WA), the ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee, defending and clarifying the detention provisions in the NDAA and advocating for its passa...
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At least, Adam Liptak does in a well-worth-reading column about Latif. Take that, editorial staff!
On a more serious note, here's the money quote:
Latif is the next great Guantánamo case--whether the Su...
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An interesting Afghanistan habeas decision today, from the UK: Yunus Ramhmatullah v. Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs et ano. (Court of Appeals (Civil Division)).
In an opinion b...
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For reasons I plan to elaborate upon in this and subsequent posts, I'm not at all convinced that the conference version of the NDAA is substantially better than the House or Senate version (or that eithe...
