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The Onion has the story:
WASHINGTON—After two years of false starts and protracted legal wrangling, President Barack Obama signed an executive order Tuesday authorizing the transfer of all 172 Guantánamo...
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It isn't every day that a representative of the National Security Agency gives a public speech on the agency's understanding of "Protecting Civil Liberties in a Cyber Age." So I thought I would take good...
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Yesterday the House Armed Services Committee's Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held a hearing on Guantanamo Detainee Transfer Policy and Recidivism.
The link to the hearing Web site, which ...
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Bobby and I just finished an unusually good panel at the annual Duke University national security law conference. It was entitled "Indefinite Detention of Terrorists" and was one of the best such events ...
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Michael Glennon, a longtime critic of presidential war unilateralism, has written a sharp critique of the April 1 OLC Opinion in support of the Libya intervention. The conclusion (footnotes omitted):
OL...
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Today counsel for the five Kiyemba v. Obama petitioners who are seeking cert.
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The United States is still bombing, under NATO command. And Congress, which has not authorized this action, is still dithering. If this pattern continues for another month (or two), the administration ...
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...but nobody who has read Detention and Denial (which, judging by the fact that it is burning up the Amazon sales ranking at #183,999, is not that many people!) can be remotely surprised by this Los Ang...
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The recent decision from the D.C. Circuit (the Esmail affirmance), and Supreme Court's recent cert. denials in several cases, warrant an update to our habeas numbers.
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They say you can't tell how a case is going to come out from an oral argument. Sometimes you can, and today is one of those days. Hussain Salem Mohammad Almerfedi is going to have his head handed to him ...
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Mike Schmitt (Durham) has an very interesting piece at the Yale Journal of International Law Online concerning UNSCR 1973 and the use of force in Libya. Mike previously served as legal advisor to Operat...
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Last week the AP published a rather breathless piece titled "AP Exclusive: US military holds terror suspects in secret jails for weeks without charge." That certainly got my attention. From the title, ...
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Tomorrow morning, a panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments in another Guantanamo habeas case, that of Hussain Salem Mohammad Almerfedi (Case No. 10-5291).
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A pair of federal prosecutions pending in Chicago raise interesting questions about the "public authority" defense, which is a perenially-vexed issue when it comes to illegal activity that might have tak...
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Judge Laurence Silberman's concurring opinion today in Esmail makes three points, each of them warranting comment. I have enormous regard for Judge Silberman, and I critique his opinion with caution. But...
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OLC’s Libya memorandum (see here for Jack’s assessment, and here for a point-by-point overview) concludes as a matter of constitutional law that President Obama did not need approval from Congress in ord...
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The D.C. Circuit's per curiam opinion today in Esmail is unremarkable--exactly what one would have suspected from the oral argument. Judge Laurence Silberman's concurrence, by contrast, is altogether rem...
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Today the D.C. Circuit, in a per curiam decision accompanied by a concurrence from Judge Laurence Silberman, affirmed Judge Henry Kennedy's denial of habeas to petitioner Yasein Khasem Mohammad Esmail (C...
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My to-read shelf is getting unmanagebly stacked. Today's addition: Jonathan Hafetz's new book from NYU Press, Habeas Corpus After 9/11: Confronting America's New Global Detention System. According to Ama...
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Further to Jack's post summarizing the OLC opinion on Libya, here is a point-by-point summary of the document's legal analysis (I agree very much with Jack's take on the implications of all this):
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