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What You Should Know–and Why You Should Care–About the Latest Guantánamo Litigation

It’s been well over three years since Linda Greenhouse, writing for the New York Times, attributed the Supreme Court’s refusal to take any new cases from Guantánamo…
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Force Feeding at Guantanamo and Judge Gladys Kessler

In his commencement address at West Point on May 28, President Obama said, “What makes [America] exceptional is not our ability to flout international norms and the rule of law,…
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al Bihani is third successful GTMO detainee before PRB; SecDef considering transfer of six others to Uruguay

Two weeks ago, the GTMO Periodic Review Board determined that continued law-of-war detention of Ghaleb Nassar al Bihani “is no longer necessary to protect against a continuing…
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UN Torture Committee seeks further answers from Lithuania on involvement in CIA detention and rendition

Last week, the UN Committee against Torture adopted its Concluding Observations [full text] on Lithuania’s third periodic report on its compliance with the Convention against…
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Ending the Forever War: One Year After President Obama’s NDU Speech

Today, May 23, 2014, marks the one-year anniversary of President’s important speech at the National Defense University (NDU) setting forth his proposed framework for post-9/11…
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NDAA Followup: Outcome on Amendments a Mixed Bag

Here’s a quick follow-up on what happened to the five proposed amendments to the House version of the FY2015 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that I flagged yesterday.…
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David Barron and the OTHER missing memos

David Barron was just confirmed to the First Circuit. To secure that vote, the Administration announced it would not appeal the Second Circuit’s order to turn over a redacted…
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5 Key NDAA Amendments to Watch For

Congress is considering the National Defense Authorization Act this week, and several proposed amendments in the House to this annual authorization bill would have significant…
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The Limits of the Logic that the Power to Kill includes the Power to Detain

I will soon have a longer post on the UK High Court judgment in Mohammed v. Ministry of Defense, but here I want to consider a specific argument that implicates the authority of…
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Serdar Mohammed: A View onto U.S. Detentions

[Editor’s Note: This post is part of a“mini forum” hosted by Just Security that analyzes different elements of the judgment in Serdar Mohammed v. Secretary of State for…
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Assessing Serdar Mohammed through the Prism of Derogation and Detention

Last week the High Court of England and Wales, per Mr Justice Leggatt, delivered a comprehensive judgment in Serdar Mohammed v. Ministry of Defence [2014] EWHC 1369 (QB). The case…
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Why Civil Libertarians and Drone Critics Should Support David Barron

Sen. Rand Paul has an op-ed in the New York Times today opposing the nomination of David J. Barron to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit until the memos Barron wrote…
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