BREAKING NEWS ~ Supreme Court to hear challenge to Gitmo tribunals
The US Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a challenge to the Bush administration's use of military tribunals for foreign terror suspects. Hamdan v. Rumsfeld comes on appeal from the...
Pentagon sets date of military commission trial for Australian Gitmo detainee
The Pentagon announced Tuesday that David Hicks , the only Australian held at the US terror suspect detention camp at Guantanamo Bay , will go to trial before a special military commission on November 18, about...
Australia government welcomes resumption of trial for Gitmo detainee
The Australian government said Wednesday it was pleased with the US decision to resume military commission proceedings against Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks in light of a US federal appeals court ruling in...
The US Defense Department Tuesday directed that suspended military commission proceedings against Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks be resumed following a July US appeals court ruling in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld that military...
Bush administration opposes Gitmo commissions appeal to Supreme Court
The Bush administration has asked the US Supreme Court to reject an appeal from a US DC Circuit Court of Appeals decision supporting the administration's use of military commissions to try detainees at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news...
Lebanon arrests 3 former security chiefs in Hariri murder probe
Lebanon has arrested three former pro-Syrian security chiefs, and the head of the presidential guard Mustafa Hamdan turned himself into authorities after an arrest warrant was issued for him in connection with the killing of former...
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...
Legal ethicists claim Roberts White House interview 'illegal'
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...
