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[Updated 3:08 p.m] Last night, the Senate approved Senator Dianne Feinstein's amendment (No.
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Courtesy of Todd Ruger from the National Law Journal, it appears that D.C. Circuit Chief Judge David Sentelle will be taking senior status as of February 12, 2013. That will reduce to seven the total num...
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Here's the Obama Administration's statement of policy regarding the Senate's version of the NDAA for FY2013. The document begins as follows:
The Administration appreciates the Senate Armed Services Com...
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You want 'em? We got 'em.
Here are some more counterterrorism-relevant amendments to the Senate's version of NDAA 2013---all offered by Senator Sessions: Nos. 3009 (conditioning the availability of ce...
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Apropos of the amendment proposed by Senator Feinstein and others, and tonight’s NDAA discussion in the Senate, here’s a quick review of S. 3254, the NDAA 2013 bill that the Senate Armed Services Committ...
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Senator Dianne Feinstein---along with Senators Lee, Coons, Collins, Paul, Lautenberg, Gillibrand, and Kirk---have introduced this amendment to the current NDAA, now on the Senator floor.
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What’s a habeas petitioner to do, if 1) current and former U.S.
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Peter Margulies of Roger Williams School of Law, writes in with the following preview of the coming Tarek Mehanna appeal.
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As Ritika noted earlier today, the New York Times editorial page has renewed its call for the Obama administration to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay. (I'll take it from Ben's lack of snark that he ju...
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Vice Admiral (Retired) Bruce MacDonald, the Convening Authority for the military commissions at Guantanamo Bay, has filed his appellate brief in Al-Nashiri v.
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Senator Rand Paul’s rumored detention amendment got me reminiscing about S.2003, better known as the Due Process Guarantee Act (“DPGA”).
Remember this?
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In his response to Andrea Prasow, Ben suggests that, in continuing to object to military commissions that have been blessed by two Congresses and both the Bush and Obama Administrations, "Human Rights Wa...