I came away from today's HASC hearing much more optimistic about the future course of our detention/prosecution policy than I had been coming in, as there were signs of what I hope will become consensus ...

Today's House Armed Services Hearing on "Ten Years After the 2001 AUMF: Current Status of Legal Authorities, Detention, and Prosecution in the War on Terror" included testimony from the following witness...

On Tuesday morning, the House Armed Services Committee is holding a hearing titled "Ten Years After the 2001 AUMF: Current Status of Legal Authorities, Detention, and Prosecution in the War on Terror."  ...

I have now had a chance to read Gul, the other D.C. Circuit case that came down on Friday. Gul establishes a proposition that, in my opinion at least, should be pretty obvious: that Guantanamo habeas jur...

I normally have a pretty good read on the D.C. Circuit in habeas cases. Not this time. Al Alwi, one of the decisions which Wells posted yesterday, took me rather by surprise. To be true to what I wrote ...

Today, the D.C. Circuit handed down opinions in two detainee cases, Al-Alwi v. Obama and Gul v. Obama.  ***

Earlier today, Raffaela noted a letter, sent by the Chairs of various House Committees to the President, regarding the latter’s approach to the Warsame case.  Unsurprisingly, the letter critiqued the Adm...

Over at the Weekly Standard, Thomas Joscelyn has a response to Bobby and my earlier response to his response to our responses (here and here) to his piece on Matthew Olsen.

United States v. Mohamed (D.Minn. July 18, 2011) is the latest in a series of convictions federal prosecutors have obtained in response to the recruitment of young Somali-American men in the Minneapolis ...

On Wednesday, the UK Supreme Court handed down its decision in Al-Rawi v.

( A joint response from Benjamin Wittes and Bobby Chesney) On Thursday we criticized a piece by Thomas Joscelyn at The Weekly Standard concerning Matt Olsen and the GTMO Review Task Force, in which Josc...

Marty Lederman has a terrific post exploring in more detail the First Amendment issues raised by the Begolly indictment.  It's a must-read if you are interested in the prospects for prosecuting those who...