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A few final thoughts on the topic of DC Circuit fidelity to Hamdi and Boumediene, for the three people still paying attention to us (hi Mom!).
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At the risk of boring readers who have long-since grown tired of this exchange, let me just offer three quick responses to Bobby's thoughtful intervention in the back-and-forth between Ben and me on whet...
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Steve and Ben are having an interesting exchange about an important question: whether the DC Circuit's caselaw in GTMO habeas proceedings has produced a set of substantive and procedural rules at varianc...
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Yesterday's news out of the Supreme Court may well have obscured another significant detainee-related legal development: As Lyle Denniston has noted over at SCOTUSblog, on Friday, the en banc Ninth Circu...
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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...
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A correspondent who prefers to remain anonymous point out the following irony. In my recent post on Dan Klaidman's book, I quoted the following passage:
The discussion continued for close to two hours, w...
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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...
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President Obama, today, on the possibility of leaks from the White House:
The notion that the White House would purposely release classified national security information is offensive, it's wrong, and pe...
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Writing in the Boston Review, Georgetown professor David Luban has this essay on President Obama's drone war and just war theory, in which aides report the president is steeped:
This image of a president...
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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 ...
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Raff pointed earlier to a USA Today op-ed by Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas), the Vice Chairman of the House Armed Services committee.
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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...