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Alejandro Manevich, a lawyer in Ontario and one of my oldest friends, writes in with the following:
I have an idea for your Lawfare contest. As a friendly amendment to Luis Dickson's proposal, might I s...
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Luis M. Dickson's truly heroic effort to chart a path by which the Obama administration could conceivably live under the law as articulated by the New York Times editorial board seems, alas, to have hit ...
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The first Lawfare contest--to come up "with a strategy for KSM that is both unambiguously lawful under [the law as stated in recent] New York Times editorials and politically conceivable on Planet Earth"...
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Yesterday, I wondered how the New York Times would treat Attorney General Holder's announcement of a military commission trial for the September 11 conspirators: "Will the Times praise Holder for respect...
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I am really--and I mean really--looking forward to the New York Times editorial on Holder's announcement.
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The Supreme Court today denied three pending petitions for certiorari: Al Odah v. Obama (No. 10-439), Awad v. Obama (No. 10-736), and Al Bihani v. Obama (No. 10-7814).
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I don't disagree with Eric Holder's complaint regarding the role Congress has played in tying the Executive Branch's hands with respect to bringing the 9/11 conspirators to trial. In fact, I strongly agr...
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The statement of Attorney General Holder appears below. The just-unsealed indictment from SDNY to which he refers is posted here, and the five-page nolle prosequi filing is here (more thoughts on all of...
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[Earlier today I posted what I thought was a newly-issued decision by Judge Hogan, dismissing as moot habeas claims by former GTMO detainees. However, this opinion was not issued on APril 1 THIS year, b...
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We've seen several reports that the Obama Administration is poised to announce, at a 2 P.M.
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Over at SCOTUSblog, Lyle Denniston takes note of the fact that the Supreme Court during last Friday’s conference had before it the cert. petitions for several GTMO-related cases.
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The D.C. Circuit also heard oral arguments today in El Falesteny v. Obama, some sort of Guantanamo case that is kept so tightly under seal that even the subject matter of the appeal seems to be a mystery...