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Very interesting. The six-page Statement of Administration Policyrelating to HR 1540, the proposed National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2012, is here. There are many objections, requests, and veto...
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I join Ben in welcoming Marty Lederman back to blogging. His initial post--parsing both international and domestic legal issues relating to the UBL operation--is typically thorough and insightful (not t...
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On Friday, the New York Times published the text of President Obama's letter to Congress, regarding the use of force in Libya. (Over at Opinio Juris, Peter Spiro has posted a discussion of the letter'...
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Over the dissent of Justices Breyer and Sotomayor (no separate opinions), the Supreme Court today denied cert. in Khadr v.
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There is much discussion today about the apparent decision of the Obama Administration to ignore the provision in the War Powers Resolution that requires that the President either terminate the use of mi...
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Josh Gerstein of the Politico is reporting a fascinating development in the rules of the Detainee Review Boards at Bagram:
The Obama Administration has taken a step to have official representatives for U...
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Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey has penned this letter to House Armed Services Chairman Buck McKeon on the latter's proposed AUMF rewrite.
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Adam Serwer responds to my post of last night:
I think any objective evaluation of the facts has to conclude that U.S. military operations against al Qaeda outside of Afghanistan and Pakistan represent "...
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Over at Opinio Juris, State Department Legal Adviser Harold Koh has posted a brief statement on "The Lawfulness of the U.S. Operation Against Osama bin Laden." The key passage reads:
Given bin Laden’s u...
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Over at Opinio Juris, State Department Legal Advisor Harold Koh has issued an official statement regarding the legality of the UBL operation. No surprises here.
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No sooner had I finished my last post than I came across this elegant little argument from Adam Serwer:
I think Wittes is right that the original AUMF contained no . . . temporal or geographic constraints.
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I have a fair bit to say in response to Daphne Eviatar's comments from earlier today concerning my post about yesterday's New York Times editorial. Let me start with a brief comment about Daphne's compla...