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A few reflections on Hedges v. Obama, enjoining at least some aspects of section 1021 of the NDAA:
A Self-Inflicted Wound?
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Ben is a far better wordsmith than I--"a little cowardly" communicates a lot more in a lot less than my post from Tuesday afternoon about why the House Armed Services Committee's version of the FY2013 Na...
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I've now had more of a chance to read through Judge Forrest's decision Wednesday in Hedges v. Obama, which (seems to) enter a preliminary injunction against some or all of section 1021 of the FY2012 Nati...
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Out today, a 68-page opinion from Judge Katherine Forrest of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, entering a preliminary injunction barring the federal government from enforcing...
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The debate over the Smith-Amash amendment to the NDAA continues. Yesterday, we posted a letter written by former administration attorneys general criticizing that amendment, among others. Today, it's twe...
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I have largely refrained from commenting on the machinations over this year's NDAA--in part because I'm still a little worn out from last year's NDAA, and in part because the issue seems to me a bit of t...
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The White House has issued a SAP (Statement of Administration Policy) threatening to veto HR 4310 (the NDAA FY '13) on various grounds, including objections to the detainee provisions found in sections 1...
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We've blogged before about the "other" pending D.C. Circuit military commission case--al-Bahlul v. United States--including the petitioner's request for initial en banc hearing. That request has now been...
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I have thus far stayed fairly mum on the FY2013 National Defense Authorization Act, if for no other reason than the 150 exams (now 80) that I have to grade.
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As usual, SCOTUSblog has a helpful post summarizing some of the key petitions for certiorari that the Supreme Court's nine Justices are set to review at their Conference this Friday. I just thought I'd f...
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As Bobby noted previously, Rep. Adam Smith and others are proposing amendments to this year's NDAA that would make certain changes to the detention-related provisions implemented by last year's NDAA. Am...
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An important story from Ben Weiser at the New York Times, from this morning, describes an interesting new development in the prosecution of Mohamed Ibrahim Ahmed--a case that receives little attention, b...