Here’s a quick read-out from Tuesday’s oral argument in a trio of cases concerning detainees captured outside of Afghanistan, but eventually transferred to the custody of the U.S. military and held at a ...

Do other counsel want to talk to Mayberry?  One of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s lawyers, David Nevin, does.

The morning’s second session picks up where the first left off: with Bin Attash attorney Cheryl Bormann, with her witness, Air Force Col. Karen Mayberry, the Chief Defense Counsel, and with a discussion ...

Our morning’s litigation commences in earnest with AE155, a defense bid to postpone the pretrial proceedings, for reasons having to do with information technology.  (We got a preview of this motion alrea...

At 9:03 a.m. the military judge, Army Col. James L. Pohl, ascends the bench.  All defense counsel are here, including Walid Bin Attash’s attorney, Cheryl Bormann---who still sounds stuffed up, but report...

It appears the morning's recess will push on a bit longer than the court indicated initially.  Instead of resuming at noon, court will resume, we are now told, at 2:00 p.m. UPDATE: our proceedings are r...

It’s on again.  All five accused are present. Opening the day's events are housekeeping matters, as always.  First, since last session, the prosecution has added a new lawyer.  Secondly, one of Walid Bin...

On Wednesday, the Guantánamo detainees appealing the D.C. District Court's refusal to enjoin the government from force-feeding hunger-strikers at the detention camp filed their reply in Aamer v. Obama.

The most puzzling line in the President’s strange speech last night was this: [E]ven though I possess the authority to order military strikes, I believed it was right, in the absence of a direct or immin...

On Monday morning---after a marathon argument in a well publicized net neutrality case---the D.C. Circuit turned to this question, in the case of Hentif v. Obama: whether the appellant timely noted his a...