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In today's Washington Post, Peter Finn has an excellent story on the comparative leniency of sentencing in military commissions to date compared with sentencing in federal court. In it, he reports the fo...
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Writing over at Forbes, Pepperdine law professor Gregory McNeal has this thoughtful piece about the President's policy directive. It contains some interesting ruminations on the breadth of some of the wa...
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Over at The Atlantic, Andrew Cohen offers this analysis of President Obama's implementation procedures for Section 1022 of the NDAA.
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Someone pointed out to me yesterday that in the recent Al Kandari cert petition, there is exactly one secondary source site: a Lawfare post. (See pp. vii and p. 12).
Neato.
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While the experience is fresh, I thought I'd share some reflections on this morning's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the Due Process Guarantee Act.
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Here is Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins's remarks to the press, which are being delivered at this hour:
Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins
Remarks at Guantanamo Bay on 29 February 2012
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Raffaela earlier posted the President's implementation procedures for Section 1022 of the NDAA--that is, the not-so-mandatory military detention provision. I have only had a chance to read it over quickl...
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This just in from the Department of Justice:
Today at 6:30 pm, the White House issued the following Fact Sheet and a Presidential Policy Directive that sets forth procedures implementing Section 1022 of ...
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There's been a lot of buzz in the press on the plea bargain reached between Majid Khan and the prosecution in his Military Commission case--and a lot of it has focused on the mere four years before Khan ...
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I've blogged before about S.
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Clive Walker, a professor of law at the University of Leeds, responds to the following comment in my Rahmatullah post: "It’s funny how courts discover deference when they realize that they have no power ...
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...is entitled "Ben Wittes' Appalling Take on Rahmatullah."
I wonder what he really thinks, though.