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President Obama’s speech was a full-throated defense of his deployment of U.S.
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Today the D.C. Circuit granted the government's motion to dismiss as moot Farhi Saeed Bin Mohammed's Guantanamo habeas merits appeal.
The government had appealed Judge Gladys Kessler's grant of Mohammed...
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At the American Society of International Law annual meeting yesterday, State Department Legal Advisor Harold Koh gave this statement on the legality of the use of force in Libya. The international law j...
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The major significance of the FBI's Miranda memo, in my view, having now read it, is two-fold. First, it essentially states a policy of exploiting fully the Quarles public safety exception to Miranda in ...
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Charlie Savage of the New York Times has posted the text of the FBI's new guidance on Miranda. I'll post thoughts after I've had a chance to digest it.
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In the last few days several smart people have disagreed with my argument in favor of the constitutionality of the Libya intervention. This is a perennial debate that arises every time the President thr...
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A few thoughts worth bearing in mind in light of the FBI “guidance” memo Ben describes below and the considerable attention it is generating.
There is a tendency in this debate to conflate rules of evid...
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Courtesy of the invaluable Secrecy News:
No-Fly Zones: Strategic, Operational, and Legal Considerations for Congress
Declarations of War and Authorizations for the Use of Military Force: Historical Bac...
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Evan Perez of the Wall Street Journal has this very interesting piece reporting that "New rules allow investigators to hold domestic-terror suspects longer than others without giving them a Miranda warni...
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Critics are starting to swarm around the Obama administration’s increasingly unintuitive claim – in the sixth day of what the New York Times now describes as “ferocious” air strikes on ground forces, tan...
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Yesterday the public version of the government's response brief in Khan v. Obama (No. 10-5306), a Guantanamo habeas case currently pending before the D.C. Circuit, became available. In this case, petitio...
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The Washington Post has an interesting editorial today largely in support of Senator Lindsey Graham's new habeas bill. Like me, the Post expresses sympathy for Graham's basic project, and objects to the ...