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Most of the eight US Supreme Court justices hearing oral arguments Tuesday in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld appeared skeptical of the Bush administration's contention that special military tribunals established by the President [Military...

Newly-disclosed comments by US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia made after a speech at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland earlier this month have touched off a furor in the lead-up to Tuesday's oral arguments in Hamdan...

A Pentagon spokesman confirmed Wednesday that the US Defense Department is considering a formal written rule that would ban statements made during torture from any proceeding before US military commissions . The Wall St. Journal reported early...

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Ian Wallach, habeas counsel for several Guantanamo Bay detainees, says that the US Executive Branch may have engaged in questionable acts and disseminated inaccurate information to encourage Senate passage of provisions in the Detainee Treatment Act...

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Ian Wallach, habeas counsel for several Guantanamo Bay detainees, says that the US Executive Branch may have engaged in questionable acts and disseminated inaccurate information to encourage Senate passage of provisions in the Detainee Treatment Act...

Ali Hamza Ahmad Sulayman al Bahlul , a Guantanamo detainee from Yemen charged with conspiring to commit murder, to attack civilians and civilian objects, and terrorism, boycotted his military commission hearing again Thursday,...

The US Supreme Court granted certiorari in four cases Tuesday. In Cunningham v. California, the Court will consider whether California's determinate sentencing law is invalid because judges are able to impose increased sentences based on their own findings of...

Lawyers for the US Department of Justice have told the US Supreme Court that inmates held at Guantanamo Bay cannot challenge their detention by relying on the US Constitution because "the Constitution does not...

The US Department of Defense announced Friday that it has brought charges against a tenth Guantanamo Bay detainee. Abdul Zahir has been formally charged with conspiracy, aiding the enemy and attacking civilians,...

The US Justice Department filed a motion with the US Supreme Court Thursday to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction a case brought by Salim Ahmed Hamdan challenging President Bush's authority to establish military commissions to try Guantanamo...