Ben asks: "What are the specific 'requirements' the Supreme Court laid out in Boumediene or Hamdi that the D.C. Circuit has refused to honor such that habeas review is not 'meaningful' within the meaning...

I almost wrote into my post earlier today that while I agreed with Steve's point that Boumediene remained consequential, I suspected he would not agree with the one I was making. I refrained, but it turn...

I'm pleased to see that Ben largely agrees with my reaction to the Guantanamo cert. denials. But Ben goes on to rehash a point he has made before about the meaning of "meaningful" habeas review--and with...

Being in a time zone very far from home, I am late to the discussion of the cert denials in the Guantanamo cases. I have only one thought to offer beyond what Steve said earlier--with which I almost enti...

As Wells already noted, the Supreme Court denied certiorari today without notation or dissent in all of the seven pending Guantanamo "merits" habeas cases (i.e., cases where the central issue goes to whe...

That's the outcome of orders from the Supreme Court today, an across-the-board denial of review in seven Guantanamo habeas cases: Latif, Al-Bihani, Uthman, Almerfedi, Al-Kandari, Al-Madhwani, and Al-Alwi...

Ben Weiser of the New York Times wrote in today, and reminded me that the 9/11 case is obviously not first to confront the issue of secretly-recorded conversations between the defendant and other Guantan...

As both Wells and Ben noted previously, there are renewed signs of interest in the fate of military detention in Afghanistan, in the form of an NPR story by Quil Lawrence and an order that same day from ...

The Associated Press, via Fox News, has another intriguing excerpt from Dan Klaidman's Kill or Capture: The War On Terror And The Soul Of The Obama Presidency.  The book is shaping up to be a must-read f...

I have resisted linking to the latest updates to Bobby, Larkin, and my paper--The Emerging Law of Detention 2.0: The Guantanamo Habeas Cases as Lawmaking--because the redesign of the Brookings web site t...

U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest has issued this order clarifying the broad scope of the injunction in her earlier opinion striking down Section 1021 of the NDAA. The order does not rule on the gove...