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DC Circuit Rules on Nashiri

Quinta Jurecic
Tuesday, August 30, 2016, 11:55 AM

This morning, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals handed down a decision on Abd al Rahim al Nashiri's petition for a writ of mandamus to dissolve the military commission convened to try him. The court denied Nashiri's petition and affirmed the ruling of the district court, which denied Nashiri's motion for a preliminary injunction of his trial by military commission.

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This morning, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals handed down a decision on Abd al Rahim al Nashiri's petition for a writ of mandamus to dissolve the military commission convened to try him. The court denied Nashiri's petition and affirmed the ruling of the district court, which denied Nashiri's motion for a preliminary injunction of his trial by military commission.


Quinta Jurecic is a fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and a senior editor at Lawfare. She previously served as Lawfare's managing editor and as an editorial writer for the Washington Post.

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