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I am keenly aware, as I acknowledged Monday, that I still owe Gabor Rona a response to his legal arguments. My initial response to his post took on only those aspects of his argument that imagined an Ame...
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This is a big deal.
The district court (in the person of Judge Edward Lodge of the District of Idaho) has entered partial summary judgment for the plaintiffs in Al-Kidd v.
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H/T to Charlie Savage for sharing the latest---doubtless unofficial---Obama bumper sticker:
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Bobby posted a day ago about an important Wall Street Journal news story talking about the US government considering options for pursuing an increasing active and dangerous branch-franchise-affiliate of ...
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The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has has just stayed Judge Katherine Forrest's decision in Hedges:
For the following reasons, we conclude that the public interest weighs in favor of granting the gover...
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Last Friday, in an interview, Secretary Janet Napolitano admitted that she never, ever used email. The Internet cognoscenti are shocked. They think it either means that she knows that the Internet is n...
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The D.C. Circuit has handed down procedural orders in two Guantanamo detention cases.
The first grants a joint motion regarding Friday's oral argument in Khairkhwa v. Obama. The argument session will b...
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Now this is interesting: an amicus brief by retired military admirals and generals, on behalf of the appellant in Nashiri v.
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Anyone following these issues closely or interested in Harold Koh's address last month on international law and cyberattacks should read Adam Segal's commentary on China's view of the issues. Adam discu...
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The Kiobel v.
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The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Kiobel yesterday, and here is SCOTUSblog's roundup of coverage:
In Kiobel, the Justices considered whether corporations can be sued under the Alien Tort Statute ...
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Beware shoppers: All illegal to fly in the Washington Flight Restricted Zone, says the FAA.
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This article in the Wall Street Journal, by Julian Barnes and Siobhan Gorman, draws attention to US government plans to ramp up counterterrorism efforts in Libya, including in particular efforts targetin...
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Earlier this week, Judge James Pohl issued a new docketing order in U.S. v. Mohammed et al. Some twenty-five motions will be under consideration at the commission's next session, which will commence o...
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As Ben posted on Saturday, Omar Khadr has been repatriated to Canada.
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The question of when an armed conflict is underway for purposes of triggering the Geneva Conventions and other relevant law of war is not in principle difficult in the case inter-state international arme...
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Gabor Rona of Human Rights First writes in with the following comments in response to my brief post of yesterday directing readers' attentions to Captain Patrick McCarthy's testimony at Khadr's sentencin...
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Reviewed by Amy Sennett
Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power, by David E. Sanger (Crown 2012)
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Over at the Weekly Standard, Thomas Jocelyn of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies has this piece on the repatriation to Canada of Omar Khadr. Jocelyn is angry over the myths the international left...
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Or, at least, that's what CTV News is reporting:
After years of detention at the U.S.