I confess that I'm a bit bewildered by the aggressiveness of the Statement of Administration Policy on the NDAA--about which Bobby just posted. As Bobby notes, the administration seems to be threatening ...

Very interesting.  The six-page Statement of Administration Policyrelating to HR 1540, the proposed National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2012, is here.  There are many objections, requests, and veto...

Over the dissent of Justices Breyer and Sotomayor (no separate opinions), the Supreme Court today denied cert. in Khadr v.

Josh Gerstein of the Politico is reporting a fascinating development in the rules of the Detainee Review Boards at Bagram: The Obama Administration has taken a step to have official representatives for U...

Anyone who wants to understand in a nutshell the difference between the New York Times editorial board and the Washington Post editorial board on counter-terrorism issues--and, actually, on a broader arr...

...the Iranians have announced that they are initiating human rights reporting about conditions in the West.

SCOTUS Blog notes that: The Court [has] relisted for a fourth time . . . Khadr v. Obama, 10-751 . . . suggesting that statements respecting, or dissents from, the denial of cert. may be forthcoming.

Last Wednesday counsel for Toffiq Al Bihani filed a petition for certiorari in the Supreme Court. Readers may recall that the D.C.

I know, I know! A goodly number of Lawfare readers are having a good smirk at my expense following the release of Bobby's and Larkin's and my new detention tome. Didn't I promise, one reader was graciou...

Well, at least we learned something about fisheries. Following this morning's lengthy oral argument in Oceana, Inc. v. Locke, the D.C. Circuit had an oh-so-brief brief discussion of Khan v. Obama in ope...

(By Benjamin Wittes, Robert Chesney, and Larkin Reynolds) It is with great pleasure that we announce the second edition of the The Emerging Law of Detention: The Guantanamo Habeas Cases as Lawmaking. As...