In a recent post, Bobby raised the question of what impact, if any, Bin Laden’s death would have on the legal effect of the Authorization for Use of Military Force, or “AUMF.”  As I noted in a post earli...

...albeit less directly than the AP, that some of the key the initial strands of intelligence came out of the CIA system. The Times reports: Last night, an official said that “detainees” had identified a...

NPR's Carrie Johnson is reporting that Attorney General Eric Holder has spoken out strongly on behalf of Paul Clement: To the list of prominent lawyers defending former Solicitor General Paul Clement's d...

National Public Radio has added its voice to that of the New York Times on the new Wikileaked Guantanamo files. NPR actually has a few stories, along with this database--done in conjunction with the Times.

If a person can't be troubled to agree with me, the very least he can do is to write good prose. Man, oh man, can Sabin Willett write good prose! Willett, who represented the Uighurs in their Supreme Cou...

News that charges have been re-sworn against al-Nashiri in the military commission system has prompted commentary regarding which Title 18 offenses could have been brought had he been charged instead in ...

I do not have a copy of the sworn charges, but the details from the press release today appear below.  For comparison’s sake, you can find the earlier iteration of charges and motion papers relating to N...

The other day, I expressed bewilderment at the intellectual convergence between the political Left and Judge Laurence Silberman over whether post-Boumediene litigation has left habeas an empty shell.

One GTMO-related case—Khadr v. Obama (No. 10-751) remains pending before the Supreme Court at the certiorari stage, and it has just been re-listed for the first time (Kiyemba, in which the Court just den...

Today the Supreme Court denied cert. to the five Uighur detainees held at Guantanamo.

Two quick comments on today's New York Times editorial: First, the Times begins with a remarkable normative assertion: "In bringing justice to those accused of plotting the Sept.