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I am really--and I mean really--looking forward to the New York Times editorial on Holder's announcement.
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The Supreme Court today denied three pending petitions for certiorari: Al Odah v. Obama (No. 10-439), Awad v. Obama (No. 10-736), and Al Bihani v. Obama (No. 10-7814).
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I don't disagree with Eric Holder's complaint regarding the role Congress has played in tying the Executive Branch's hands with respect to bringing the 9/11 conspirators to trial. In fact, I strongly agr...
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The statement of Attorney General Holder appears below. The just-unsealed indictment from SDNY to which he refers is posted here, and the five-page nolle prosequi filing is here (more thoughts on all of...
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[Earlier today I posted what I thought was a newly-issued decision by Judge Hogan, dismissing as moot habeas claims by former GTMO detainees. However, this opinion was not issued on APril 1 THIS year, b...
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We've seen several reports that the Obama Administration is poised to announce, at a 2 P.M.
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Over at SCOTUSblog, Lyle Denniston takes note of the fact that the Supreme Court during last Friday’s conference had before it the cert. petitions for several GTMO-related cases.
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The D.C. Circuit also heard oral arguments today in El Falesteny v. Obama, some sort of Guantanamo case that is kept so tightly under seal that even the subject matter of the appeal seems to be a mystery...
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Today the D.C. Circuit heard oral argument in Gul v. Obama and Hamad v. Obama, the consolidated appeals that ask whether a federal district court has jurisdiction to consider the claims of habeas petitio...
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Larry Solum's Legal Theory Blog, which among other things posts links to all manner of forthcoming legal scholarship, is always worth reading...but above all he's worth reading on April 1st. Who knew B...
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The House Armed Services Committee has formally assigned a subcommittee to investigate recidivism and treatment issues related to transfers from Guantanamo. In this letter to Reps.
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Former U.S. District Judge James Robertson published this interesting letter to the editor in the Washington Post. Judge Robertson is, to my knowledge, the first member of either the district court or th...