Before we tell you about the outpouring of love that Lawfare is getting at the Nashiri hearings (stay tuned for that!), we've a bunch of other matters to report. The court now turns to the first of the ...

Following his non-resolution of the conflicts issue, Judge Pohl announces a kind of schedule for the hearing. He will, he says, begin with the constitutional issues, then handle discovery issues, then co...

Military Judge Col. James L. Pohl opens the hearing at around 9:10 am announcing that Brig. General Mark Martins, the chief prosecutor for military commissions, has joined the prosecution table.

We’re back in the dark room staring at a wall. The Wall today is playing host to the Al-Nashiri marathon--a three day orgy of pre-trial motions on everything from shackling to the history of conspiracy a...

To the list of significant motions to be argued tomorrow during the motions hearing in Al-Nashiri, add this: the defense’s contention that the charge of conspiracy is beyond the commission’s jurisdiction...

As Raffaela has already noted, the European Court of Human Rights unanimously ruled this morning that Abu Hamza al-Masri and four other wanted terrorism suspects may be extradited from the United Kingdom...

One motion to keep an eye on during the upcoming commission session in United States v. Al-Nashiri: the defense’s request for the Commission to order Guantanamo officials to permit Al-Nashiri to meet wit...

Judging by the docket, we are in for a lengthy motions hearing starting tomorrow morning in United States v. Abd al-Rahim Hussein Mohammed Abdu Al-Nashiri — the capital military commission case alleging ...

Back in March, the Convening Authority dismissed the charges against Guantanamo detainee Tarek Mahmoud El Sawah of conspiracy to commit acts attacking civilians, attacking civilian objects, murder in vio...

So reports the Washington Post . . . UPDATE [5:17 p.m]: the referred charges in the capital case against KSM and his co-defendants include, among other things, conspiracy and attacking civilians.  The c...

The 28-page opinion in United States v. Stone, (E.D. Mich. Mar.