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Today's executive order on GTMO detention review ("Periodic Review of Individuals Detained at Guantanamo Bay Naval Station Pursuant to the Authorization for Use of Military Force"; see also the fact shee...
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The administration today released its much-anticipated executive order on detention policy: Periodic Review of Individuals Detained at Guantánamo Bay Naval Station Pursuant to the Authorization for Use o...
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As expected, today the government did appeal to the D.C. Circuit Judge Friedman's decision to deny its motion for a stay pending the merits appeal of Almerfedi v. Obama. The government wrote in its emerg...
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I recently posted comments from John Dehn (West Point) responding to comments from Raha Wala (Human Rights First) on the military commission system. Raha has now written a reply to John:
I appreciate Pr...
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On Thursday morning, a panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments in the latest in a long string of habeas appeals to make their way up the appellate chain: Masaab Al-Madhwani v. Bara...
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“I think the international community’s is going to come together . . . to try to have a coordinated effort to bring pressure on Gadhafi,” said White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley, yesterday, on Meet th...
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More happened in Almerfedi v. Obama last week than just the release of the final public merits brief. Yesterday Judge Friedman denied the government's motion for a stay of the district court's order pend...
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Here is the video of my talk today at Politics & Prose on Detention & Denial: The Case for Candor After Guantanamo. It is broken up into four segments. My thanks to Politics & Prose for hosting me and to...
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The public merits briefing in Almerfedi v. Obama (No.
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I have been meaning for some time to post thoughts on the recent habeas denial in the case of Mashour Abudllah Muqbel Alsabri. It has slipped, however, because the opinion by Judge Ricardo Urbina, at 60 ...
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On February 24th, as directed by the en banc Court of Military Commission Review, the appellants in al Bahlul and Hamdan filed briefs addressing two questions:
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I’m very pleased to announce the call for papers and participants for the 4th Annual National Security Law Faculty Workshop/IHL Training, which will take place on May 19 and 20 at the Army JAG School in ...
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The legal issues – domestic and international – of a possible U.S. military intervention in Libya are pretty straightforward, and we shall discuss them in due course if an intervention comes to pass. Me...
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Carrie Johnson and Margot Williams of National Public Radio have a very interesting two-part series on what they call "Guantanamo North"--"two secretive units for convicted terrorists and other inmates w...
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Just a reminder that I will be reading from, talking about, and signing copies of Detention and Denial at Politics and Prose in Washington DC on Saturday afternoon at 1 pm.
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My friend Steve Walt weighs in against media patriotism. But he gives the game away, I think, when he says: “There are undoubtedly some narrow circumstances when a patriotic journalist should decline to...
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The meme has been floating about for some time: the D.C. Circuit--and, particularly, the evil Judge A. Raymond Randolph--is subverting habeas, fighting a rear-guard action against the rule of law, and tu...
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At Monday's Brookings event on judicial nominations, Chief Judge Royce Lamberth of the D.C. District Court offered a few thoughts on the impact of judicial vacancies on the D.C.
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In his thoughtful critique of Jack and my recent statements, Ken Jost makes three distinct points that are each worthy of consideration. I will address them in turn.
First, he writes, "The supposed dile...
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Glenn Greenwald has an interesting response to my post on the patriotism of American media, but he exaggerates the significance of the media’s patriotic bent, and he misses some important points.
To beg...