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Guantanamo

The Misbegotten Court of Military Commission Review

Steve Vladeck Tue, May 24, 2016, 12:00 PM

Anyone following the Guantánamo military commissions would do well to read Bob Loeb and Helen Klein's trenchant take on last Friday's D.C. Circuit decision in In re Khadr, in which the Court of Appeals declined to issue a writ of mandamus even while agreeing that there may be a serious question "whether the civilians who serve as judges on the U.S.

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Military Commissions

The D.C. Circuit's Thoroughly Convincing Decision in al-Nashiri

Steve Vladeck Tue, Jun 23, 2015, 12:20 PM

This morning, a three-judge D.C.

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Military Commissions

The Functional Case Against Military Commission Trials of "Domestic" Offenses

Steve Vladeck Wed, Jun 17, 2015, 7:47 AM

As I explained on Sunday, one way to understand the diffference between the majority and dissenting opinions in last Friday's D.C. Circuit decision in al Bahlul v. United States is as reflecting two different methodological approaches to the question of whether Congress can empower non-Article III military commissions to try "domestic" offenses like inchoate conspiracy.