...[V]ices of [this speech by Republican Rep. Buck McKeon] include its laughably unfair analysis of current American policy, one that does not auger well for a strong working relationship with the administration on counterterrorism issues...
The Washington Post is reporting this morning that the administration’s solution to the problem of how to try KSM and his buddies may be, well, not to bother:
This afternoon, the Brookings Institution was honored to host Justice Stephen Breyer for a lively discussion, which I moderated, on his new book: Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge’s View
This afternoon, the Brookings Institution was honored to host Justice Stephen Breyer for a lively discussion, which I moderated, on his new book: Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge’s View...
They say you can’t tell where an appeals panel is headed based on the oral argument. Sometimes you can. I will go out on a limb on the one I attended today: I will eat my computer if the D.C. Circuit affirms Judge Ricardo Urbina’s decision in Hatim v. Obama...
Tomorrow, D.C. Circuit Judges Karen LeCraft Henderson, A. Raymond Randolph, and Stephen Williams will hear oral argument in Hatim v. Obama, a habeas merits appeal of some potential importance...
The Al Aulaqi argument today was long...Rather than focus on the arguments of the parties, therefore, I am going to give my impressions of Judge John Bates’ reactions to these arguments...
I promised I would offer thoughts on Tom Malinowski’s latest missive after I had a chance to digest and reflect on it...For whatever they are worth, here are my brief thoughts on Tom’s clarification...
This morning the D.C. Circuit vacated and remanded a decision by former U.S. District Judge James Robertson, granting habeas relief to Mohammedou Salahi...The decision, however, is interesting in several respects...
