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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...
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While you weren’t looking, Guantanamo has been closed—and turned into an art museum! I am writing to the museum staff now for any information they might be willing to provide about this remarkable alter...
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U.S. District Judge John Bates has entered the following order in Maqaleh, the case testing federal court habeas jurisdiction for detainees at Bagram:
MINUTE ORDER: The Court has received 81 petitioners'...
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Jonathan Witmer-Rich sends in the following commentary on the Amawi case, which I posted yesterday:
Just wanted to offer a bit of commentary on U.S. v. Amawi, which you flagged on the Lawfare blog . . . .
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The government has just posted a memorandum from March 12, 1945 in the Bahlul docket concerning the question of whether participation in a conspiracy to commit an offense against the law of war is punish...
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The current commander of ISAF has written this op-ed in the Washington Post on the progress that is being made in Afghanistan, the collaboration between NATO and Afghan security forces, and the uptick in...
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Haven’t read this yet, but U.S. v. Amawi, which came down yesterday, looks pretty interesting. The opinion is by Judge Danny Boggs, and while the disposition was unanimous, one of the judges wrote separa...
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Last week, D.C.
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Ben beat me to it, but this morning, the D.C Circuit issued a terse order removing United States v.
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This is interesting. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has just entered the following docket order in the military commission appeal of Ali Hamza Ahmad al Bahlul:
CLERK'S ORDER filed . . . , on the cou...
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The motions hearing that begins tomorrow in the 9/11 military commissions case is far too sprawling to preview motion by motion. Instead, we've broken it up thematically. Nearly all of the 25 motions on ...
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Just so y'all know: the military commission expects a more orderly affair this time around, in United States v. Mohammed et al. More orderly, at any rate, than May's rough-and-tumble arraignment. How d...