17 days ago by constitutional lawblogger

A three-judge panel of the Fourth Circuit yesterday rejected Jose Padilla's civil claims against Donald Rumsfeld and other high-level government officials growing out of his designation as an enemy combatant and his military detention. The ruling, Lebron v. Rumsfeld, is...

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48 days ago by constitutional lawblogger

The New York Times and reporters Charlie Savage and Scott Shane sued the Department of Justice in the Southern District of New York this week to obtain any legal analysis from the Office of Legal Counsel authorizing the government's targeted...

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70 days ago by constitutional lawblogger

The Senate today passed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, S. 1867, with its several provisions dealing with the government's detention authority. Recall that the Obama Administration previously objected to several detainee-related provisions of the bill and...

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82 days ago by constitutional lawblogger

The White House on Thursday issued a statement objecting to certain provisions in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, now before the Senate. The Statement of Administration Policy objects to the detention provisions in S. 1867 as...

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88 days ago by constitutional lawblogger

David Cole (Georgetown) revisits the government's targeted killing of Anwar al Awlaki in a piece titled Killing Our Citizens in the New York Review of Books. Cole reopens and criticizes the killing, which faded from the mainstream news cycle within...

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106 days ago by Cryptic Muse

There's no doubt that Joseph Kony is an ugly, brutish, fiend of a man. As leader of the notorious Lord's Resistance Army, he's responsible for crimes that run the whole gamut of the penal code. A 2005 indictment issued by the International Criminal Court brought 33 charges against him, including mur ...

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106 days ago by Christine Sellers

As Andrew has previously mentioned, we frequently analyze web metrics to see which Law Library of Congress web pages are the most viewed. In addition, I have mentioned the Current Legal Topics page before in writing about the finding aids available on the Law Library website. A page that has recentl ...

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112 days ago by Bruce Miller

Another Bad Man is dead, this time Libya's Muammar Qaddafi. Time will soon tell whether that will bring something like peace to Libya or set the stage for a new phase in the civil war. Here is a segment from RT's The Alyona Show featuring Robert Farley of the Lawyers Guns and Money blog discussing t ...

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112 days ago by Cryptic Muse

"Wow." – Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reacting to early news reports of the dictator's capture. *** "The news from the Middle East is vindication of the Obama administration's policy in Libya. A man who was an enemy of the American people, someone who killed Americans aboard Pan Am 103, someon ...

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113 days ago by constitutional lawblogger

Judge Reggie B. Walton (D.D.C.) ruled today in Kucinich v. Obama that ten members of the United States House of Representatives lack standing to sue President Obama for violating the War Powers Clause of the Constitution and the War Powers...

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