A few weeks ago, AFRICOM quietly brought to an end a five-year-old combat-equipped deployment that for a time had raised some very interesting War Powers Resolution questions.

A White House’s responsibility to explain the legal basis for military actions such as the Syria missile strikes is dangerously undefined. This is not a problem unique to the Trump Administration. Nor do...

In answers to written questions preceding his confirmation hearing, now-CIA Director Mike Pompeo caused concern by indicating a willingness to revisit rules governing military and intelligence interrogat...

In her recent blog discussing the relevance of the Kosovo precedent in the context of the United States missile strike in Syria, Professor Ashley Deeks noted that “such an intervention, even if narrowly ...

With six hours to spare before the 48-hour deadline in section 4 of the War Powers Resolution, the White House has sent the President's report to Congress on Thursday evening's missile attacks on Syria. ...

With one exception, I agree with Jack’s post on the OLC perspective on the constitutionality of President Trump’s Syria strike. Jack writes about Trump's strike:

“The opinions of judges, no less than executives and publicists, often suffer the infirmity of confusing the issue of a power's validity with the cause it is invoked to promote, of confounding the perman...

The United States has just launched a missile attack against Syrian air bases, apparently in response to the Assad regime’s use of chemical weapons against Syrian civilians.

I have been rather critical in the past of the Court of Military Commission Review (CMCR)—the intermediate appellate court Congress created in 2006 to sit between the Guantánamo military commissions and ...

Military judge Army Colonel James Pohl calls the commission to order, and takes roll, noting that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Mustafa al Hawsawi are absent but all other defendants are present. Prosecuto...

On Friday, a three-judge panel in the D.C. Court of Appeals rejected a request to release recordings of military personnel in Guantanamo Bay force-feeding a detainee who was on a hunger strike. The detai...

Don't look now but the long dormant world of Guantanamo habeas litigation is getting at least a little bit less sleepy. Last November, a detainee named Guled Hassan Duran, an alum of the CIA's RDI prog...