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Senators Charles Schumer and Russ Feingold said Wednesday that they expected US Supreme Court nominee John Roberts to address why he chose not to recuse himself from the Hamdan v. Rumsfeld [PDF...

Court documents released Thursday revealed that the US government is arguing that Australian citizen David Hicks should face a military commission trial following an appellate court ruling from a three judge panel that included US...

In a Slate article published Wednesday, legal ethicists Stephen Gillers, David Luban and Steven Lubet claim that the White House violated the law when it interviewed Judge John Roberts this spring for the US Supreme...

Lawyers for Guantanamo detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan filed a petition of certiorari on Monday, asking the US Supreme Court to block military tribunals for terror suspects. The high court had once before denied cert on...

JURIST Guest Columnist Darryll Jones, former criminal trial attorney for the US Army Judge Advocate General and now a law professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, says that the recent ruling of the US DC Circuit Court...

Press statement on resumption of military commissions, US Department of Defense, July 18, 2005 . Excerpt:The Office of Military Commissions...

AP is reporting that US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has said that military trials of two suspected terrorists held at Guantanamo Bay will resume as soon as possible and charges will be filed against eight other detainees.2:25 PM...

Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, et al., US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, July 15, 2005 . Excerpt:Hamdan claims that AR 190-8 entitles him to have a "competent tribunal"...

AP is reporting that a US federal appeals court has ruled that Guantanamo detainees may be tried by military commissions. Read the US DC Circuit Court of Appeals opinion in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld. JURIST's Paper Chase provides background...

The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit hears arguments Thursday on the legality of military commission trials of terror suspects held at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base . Last November, US District Judge James Robertson ordered...