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Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman Al Bahlul has filed his reply brief in his appeal of his military commission conviction in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. You'll recall that Al Ba...
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For D.C.-area readers, I'll be participating in what should be a lively discussion of the current and future legal and policy issues surrounding military commissions (I suspect it will be that much livel...
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Why have victims of alleged governmental misconduct arising out of post-September 11 counter-terrorism policies met with virtually no success thus far in pursuing damages claims arising out of the govern...
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The United States District Court for the District of Columbia yesterday granted the United States' motion to dismiss in Wahid v. Gates - a habeas case in which the petitioner had challenged his detention...
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I missed this the other day, but it seems to me extraordinary: A former president seems to be calling the current president of his own party an assassin.
If you think that's hyperbole, read Jimmy Carter...
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Just a quick follow-up on my post of this morning. A correspondent points out to me that on David Remes's definition of "prevailing," Boumediene itself should be counted as a government win. After all, t...
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The government has filed its supplemental brief in Hamdan on the question of whether the case is moot. We shared a few weeks back Hamdan's supplemental brief on the issue. As Wells explained in that post...
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In his response to my earlier post on the New York Times's 19-to-0 figure--which turns out, he says, to be his 19-to-0 figure--David Remes makes several interesting points worthy of comment. I wish to fo...
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Habeas lawyer David Remes writes in to defend the New York Times's use of 19-to-0 as the government's win-loss record before the D.C. Circuit in habeas cases. He makes, to be honest, a better case than I...
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Just in time for the weekend, here's the latest in Mingazov. As I noted yesterday, Ravil Mingazov posted his response in opposition to the government's motion to remand his case back to the District Cour...
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Congratulations to Scott L. Silliman and William B. Pollard III, both of whom the Senate last night confirmed to be judges of the U.S. Court of Military Commission Review. Both men must formally be swor...
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There has been some movement in the long-stalled Mingazov case—one of the Guantanamo habeas cases that’s still kicking around. Way back in December 2010, Larkin shared the government's brief in its appea...