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Documents: Court Unseals Documents Regarding Chelsea Manning Subpoena
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia has unsealed several filings concerning Chelsea Manning's challenge to a subpoena in that court. Manning was found to be in civil contempt on ... -
Supreme Court Reinforces Mandatory Detention of Immigrants
The Supreme Court’s March 19 decision on in Nielsen v. Preap rejected challenges to mandatory detention of certain noncitizens—“aliens” under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). Generally speaking... -
Document: Habeas Petition of Guantanamo Detainee Denied
In an opinion signed on Jan. 28 and released in redacted form on Mar. 15, Judge Royce C. Lambeth of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia denied a petition for a writ of habeas corpus from... -
Document: Pentagon Provides List of Projects Potentially Delayed for Border Wall Funding
On Monday, the office of Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) released a fact sheet provided by the Department of Defense listing all potential military projects from which funding could be diverted, pursuant to the ... -
Speaker Pelosi and the Norms of Impeachment
Speaker Nancy Pelosi has now joined Gerald Ford as a House leader putting on the record an influential view of the boundaries of impeachment. In 1970, when Ford was House minority leader, he spoke from t... -
¿Cuántos Centroamericanos Están Viajando al Norte?
Editor's note: This post is a translation of "How Many Central Americans Are Traveling North?," by Stephanie Leutert and Sarah Spalding. The original English version of the post is available here. -
How Many Central Americans Are Traveling North?
Editor's note: A version of this piece is now available in Spanish here. Nota editorial: Se puede leer este post en español aquí. -
Last Week at the Military Commissions: Discovery Disputes and a Medical Recess in al-Iraqi
The military commission trying alleged al-Qaeda commander Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi reconvened on March 6, after a nearly two-month hiatus. This one-day session recapped party conferences since the last sessi... -
Congress Should Staff Up the Office of Foreign Assets Control
Those familiar with the hard work done by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) are likely to agree that this small agency with a big responsibility for implementing U.S. sanctions deserves more mo... -
The Role of Deference in Adjudicating the Military Transgender Policy, DACA and the Census
On March 9, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued two concurring opinions in an earlier per curiam ruling that had vacated a district court injunction against the military’s restrictions ... -
How Securities Law Can Help the U.S. Counter INSTEX
On Jan. 31, the governments of France, Germany and the United Kingdom formally announced the establishment of the Instrument in Support of Trade Exchanges (INSTEX), a Special Purpose Vehicle dedicated to... -
Transgender Service Ban Nears Implementation
Note: The Defense Department has issued a directive implementing the department's policy, effective April 12, 2019.
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