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More from the AG in Response to Senator Paul
According to this Talking Points Memo piece, Attorney General Eric Holder today sent another letter to Senator Rand Paul, regarding the latter's inquiries on the executive branch's authority to conduct d... -
Senator Paul's Filibuster: Get Yer Transcript and Video Here!
As you no doubt already know, Kentucky's junior Senator, Rand Paul, on Wednesday filibustered John O. Brennan's nomination to be CIA Director for thirteen hours (with help, in part, from his Senate colle... -
Guess What Play Ted Cruz Read from in the Filibuster
That's right... Henry V. Royal Shakespeare Company he's not, but here's the junior senator from Texas's rendition (pun intended) of the St. Crispin's Day Speech---and his explanation of how it relates to... -
Drone Strikes in Pakistan: Consent and Obfuscation?
The New York Times recently carried two reports by Declan Walsh about alleged drone strikes that took place in Pakistan’s tribal areas in February. The first report noted that the strikes may have been c... -
Why I Don't Mind the Rand Paul Filibuster
Jack is certainly right that Senator Paul "is painting a misleadingly very unattractive picture of the circumstances in which the United States uses drones abroad in words that will now be played around ... -
More on Henry V and LOAC---From Robert Farley
Over at the Lawyers, Guns, and Money blog, Robert Farley has an interesting post taking me to task for ignoring the siege of Harfleur in my discussion of Henry V and the law of armed conflict. Farley quo... -
Sen. Rand Paul Is Still Filibustering the Brennan Confirmation
As the New York Times reports, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has been speaking on the Senate floor since before noon in an effort to filibuster the nomination of John Brennan, President Obama’s chief counterter... -
DOJ Seeks Rehearing En Banc in <em>Bahlul</em> to Overturn <em>Hamdan II</em>
Back in January, we devoted a fair amount of attention to the DOJ Supplemental Brief in the al-Bahlul military commission appeal--and the rather significant internal debate within the Administration abou... -
AG's and Brennan's Responses to Senator Paul's Question About Domestic Drone Strikes Against Citizens
This week, Attorney General Eric Holder and DCIA nominee John Brennan both responded, separately and in writing, to Senator Rand Paul's inquiry regarding the government's authority to use lethal force ag... -
Habeas, Due Process, and... Extradition?
One of the more interesting structural constitutional questions to emerge from the post-9/11 detention litigation has been the previously under-explored relationship between the Constitution's Suspension... -
Brief for the United States in Al-Janko
The United States has filed its appellate brief in the case of Al-Janko v. -
The Capture-or-Kill Debate #7: Goodman Responds
The following guest post is the latest in a series comprising a debate as to whether LOAC requires an attempt to capture rather than a first-resort to lethal force in some circumstances. The debate invo...
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