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The D.C. Circuit Court this morning handed down two opinions that may be of interest to Lawfare readers.
In Ali v. Rumsfeld, Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson delivered the opinion which affirmed the distri...
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The Senate Armed Services Committee announced Friday that it had completed its markup of the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2012.
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Back in April, I posted this motion by habeas attorney David Remes in Paracha v. Obama, asking for the ability to access Wikileaked material like everyone else can. I had not noticed this response yester...
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At this hour, I am participating in a briefing for the House Armed Service Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations concerning transfers of Guantanamo detainees to Yemen. Brookings has posted my writ...
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Jose Padilla and his mother have appealed the dismissal of their civil case against a raft of current and former Defense Department officials.
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The appellant's reply brief is now available for Suleiman v. Obama. Petitioner Abdulrahman Suleiman challenges Judge Reggie Walton’s July 2010 decision denying him the writ of habeas corpus.
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The appellant's brief in the case al-Zahrani et al. v. Donald Rumsfeld is now available. This case relates to the reported suicides at Guantanano in 2006, the conspiracy theories about which Ben wrote he...
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In the wake of the Almerfedi decision, the question necessarily arises whether any detainee might plausibly expect to prevail in front of the D.C. Circuit. In the defense bar, disgusted, head-shaking des...
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The Australian newspaper is reporting that three of the Guantanamo Uighurs sent to Palau from Guantanamo have applied for Australian residency permits:
THREE Chinese Uighurs who were for years detaine...
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The memorandum opinion filed on May 23rd in al-Hajj v.
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Here are the Updated Habeas Numbers in light of the D.C. Circuit's decision Friday in Almerfedi. In addition to these cases, a docket entry in the district court case of an Afghan detainee named Khairull...
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A number of readers have written in to argue that my attempt to complicate the D.C. Circuit's emerging doctrine on guesthouse stays and training camps is itself too simple.
These readers point out from ...
