A strong backer of the 2006 law establishing military commissions at Guantanamo Bay said this week he has reservations about using the tribunals to try juvenile detainees.
Documents released in the appeal of convicted al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui showed that Justice Department lawyers knew since at least early 2006 that the CIA destroyed a videotaped interrogation of…
A day after CIA director Michael Hayden admitted in testimony before Congress that the Bush administration had used the so-called waterboarding technique on three al-Qaida suspects, a White House spokesman…
The Justice Department plans to file an emergency petition with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking review of a ruling requiring the government to supply more information about its designation of…
An actor-turned-lawyer has written a 30-minute screenplay that imagines the deliberations of three military judges deciding whether to hold a Guantanamo detainee as an enemy combatant.
The judge who oversaw the trial of al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui criticized proposals for a special national security court at a speech Friday, saying federal courts are…
The MIT student charged with walking into an airport wearing a device feared to be a bomb is seeking dismissal of the charges on First Amendment grounds.
Updated: Attorney General Michael Mukasey is giving a “lawyerly response” to a Senate Judiciary Committee request for an opinion on waterboarding, the Washington Post reports.
A lawyer is blasting the United States’ treatment of a Guantánamo detainee after the U.S. Supreme Court’s rejection of her emergency request for his medical records.
A lawyer for disbarred lawyer Lynne Stewart claimed in appellate arguments yesterday that his client’s release of a statement by an imprisoned sheik was protected by…
The decision to spare convicted terrorist Jose Padilla a life sentence came as a surprise to many. But a Miami Herald analysis indicates U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke of Miami…
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has ordered the Bush administration to issue a written report explaining why videotapes of harsh interrogations of two terrorism suspects were destroyed.