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Over at Just Security, Marty Lederman has an interesting piece about a Guantanamo case the Supreme Court has relisted three times for consideration at conference. He writes:
The Supreme Court has reliste...
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Further to my post yesterday, the administration has sent this letter to Congress in relation to the Uganda mission, using the usual "consistent with the War Powers Resolution" formulation.
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Should the War Powers Resolution "clock" be running in Uganda?
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Last week I noted an interesting exchange on AUMF renewal (and life in a post-AUMF world) during Michael Lumpkin's March 11 testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee. When Lumpkin appeared be...
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I’ve already written at some length about the D.C. Circuit’s decision last month in Aamer v.
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Criticizing the US stance on human rights treaties is practically an international sport, as evidenced by the bruising reception the UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) gave to a US delegation last week. As...
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Secrecy---of the sort that typically shrouds cyber-defense and cyber-attack capabilities and doctrine---complicates the development of international norms. Secrecy makes it difficult to engage in sustai...
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Today an interagency review panel will hear, by video hookup, the case of Guantanamo detainee Ali Ahmad al-Razihi. The issue is whether the Yemeni's further detention is necessary to protect a continuin...
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A disturbing news item: it appears that Russian soldiers have killed at least one Ukrainian soldier at a Ukrainian military base in the Crimea, possibly heralding a violent resolution to the tense armed...
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Worth noting: There have been four reported drone strikes in Yemen over the past two weeks. Long War Journal provides the details on the latest one here; LWJ's drone coverage in general is simply invalu...
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The slow-boil debate regarding the fate of the 2001 AUMF continues. The subject came up on March 11 when Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations/Low-Intensity Conflict (SO/LIC) Michael Lum...
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For the Motion:
Alan Dershowitz, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Michael Lewis, Professor of Law, Ohio Northern University School of Law
Against the Motion: