An update: we've attended today's oral argument in Suleiman v. Obama, at the D.C. Circuit.  For scheduling reasons, however, we'll have to delay posting a recap of the argument until Monday.  Stay tuned ...

Here is the prepared text, released by the White House, of John Brennan's speech at the Harvard Law School-Brookings conference now under way in Cambridge. I will post video, including of the very intere...

It looks like I missed a habeas decision a few weeks ago. According to a docket entry of which I only became aware this morning, federal district Judge Royce Lamberth has ruled on the remand in the case ...

Kevin Heller (Melbourne) writes in with a response to last night's post from Peter Margulies on the CMCR decision in Al-Bahlul: Peter Margulies is absolutely right that I ignore the factual differences b...

That's what Dylan Boyd pled to today.  It's quite a mouthful, but if you go through it slowly it does actually prove coherent--though also good fodder for a criminal law exam....  In any event, from the ...

As noted previously, I testified in late July before House Armed Services regarding detention policy, with a focus on the Warsame situation.  I've seen received a handful of QFRs from committee members, ...

The next episode in the D.C. Circuit’s Guantanamo detention saga: Suleiman v. Obama (Case No. 10-5292), an appeal set for oral argument this Friday before the D.C. Circuit.

DOJ had a heck of a good run in terorrism and national security cases over the past seven days, including three sets of guilty please plus a hefty sentence in another case.  The details appear below: * ...

 Steve Vladeck is a professor of law (and Associate Dean for Scholarship) at American University Washington College of Law.  Steve is the author of many terrific articles relating to national security an...