I'm happy to report that I've recently completed drafting an article that has been much on my mind for the past few years.  Beyond the Battlefield, Beyond al Qaeda: The Destabilizing Legal Architecture o...

Ben beat me to it, but this morning, the D.C Circuit issued a terse order removing United States v.

Over at SCOTUSblog, there's a terrific symposium underway to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of The Least Dangerous Branch, Alex Bickel's seminal work on the Supreme Court and judicial review.

One of the many difficulties that arise when a state employs its military to conduct operations within its own borders is the question of whether alleged abuses committed by the military should be tried ...

With a hat tip to Bobby, I wanted to flag that the Fourth Circuit on Friday upheld the conviction of Sean Brehm, a non-citizen convicted under the Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act (MEJA) for an...

This just in - sort of.  On Wednesday, Judge Leonie Brinkema denied John Kiriakou's motion to dismiss certain counts against him on vagueness and overbreadth grounds.  Not at all surprising stuff, consid...

From Courthouse New Service:  Invoking the mass detention of Japanese-Americans during World War II, a federal judge on Tuesday appeared ready to uphold her injunction against the law that lets the U.S. ...

I am on vacation, and blogging only minimally, so I missed this week's hearing before Judge Katherine Forrest on the plaintiff's request for a permanent injunction in Hedges. Seeing as how the argument t...

Secretary of Defense Panetta has directed the Defense Legal Policy Board to form a subcommittee to examine "military justice in cases of U.S.

I've been less than on the ball about covering the Senate Intelligence Committee's new anti-leak legislation. Here's the bill text. Here's a good summary by Steve Aftergood over at Secrecy News.

The plaintiffs have filed their reply in support of their request for a permanent injunction in the case of Hedges v. Obama.

I received the following response from Richard Klingler to my ACSblog post on Monday re: the Al-Aulaqi suit and Bivens, and thought I'd post it in its entirety (below the fold) before replying (also belo...