Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Georgetown University law professor Cliff Sloan, author of "The Court at War," talked about the case Ex parte Quirin (1942), which resulted from two ...

A number of readers have written asking questions about the construction I put on Ex parte Quirin in a recent post about the al-Awlaki case. Do I really believe that Quirin authorizes the president to ...

On Feb. 28, the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina directed the release of Jose Padilla, the terrorist who planned to detonate a “dirty bomb” in a major United States city. For ...

Under existing law, President George W. Bush has the legal authority to use military commissions to try certain suspected terrorists for violations of the law of war. In arguing otherwise, George P.