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3 Apr 2012, 11:20 am
by Deborah Pearlstein The past few weeks have seen some resurrection of the old claim that targeted killing operations have increased under the Obama Administration because detention of participants in armed conflict (as the United States defines it) has become too fraught with legal difficulty. [read post]
15 Feb 2010, 12:17 pm
by Deborah Pearlstein Cross-posted at Balkinization This is a post about politics, not law. [read post]
6 Jul 2011, 6:56 am
by Deborah Pearlstein Cross posted at Balkinization Big news in the past day is the Obama administration's announcement that a Somali national captured by the U.S. military somewhere in the Gulf has been transferred to New York for federal prosecution on terrorism-related charges. [read post]
21 Jun 2010, 6:19 am
by Deborah Pearlstein Cross-posted at Balkinization Nothing like summertime to catch up on a little light reading I spent too little time with during the semester. [read post]
22 May 2010, 5:19 am
by Deborah Pearlstein Cross-posted at Balkinization Following my co-blogger Ken Anderson’s lead, I wanted to add a few additional notes on the D.C. [read post]
5 Mar 2010, 8:38 am
by Deborah Pearlstein Cross-posted at Balkinization This morning’s papers bring news from anonymous administration officials that “President Obama’s advisers are nearing a recommendation that Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, be prosecuted in a military tribunal. [read post]
25 May 2011, 1:01 pm
by Deborah Pearlstein Cross-posted at Balkinization Congress is debating a defense authorization bill this week that would not only prohibit the use of Defense Department funds to transfer Guantanamo detainees to the United States for criminal prosecution, but also effectively double down on the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) legislation Congress passed just after the attacks of 9/11. [read post]
4 May 2011, 6:25 am
Deborah Pearlstein's thoughtful plea that we not "talk about torture" has fallen on deaf ears. [read post]
29 Apr 2010, 1:07 pm
by Deborah Pearlstein Still catching up on yesterday’s news that DOD released the much-anticipated 2010 edition of the Manual for Military Commissions (MMC). [read post]
23 Apr 2010, 4:42 am
by Deborah Pearlstein Cross-posted on Balkinization and Scotusblog Since Justice Stevens announced his intention to retire, discussions about what his departure will mean for the Court have regularly noted his military service in World War II. [read post]
8 Apr 2008, 10:16 am
My thanks to Deborah Pearlstein for her thoughtful reply which illustrates well the professional disregard for both women and family in academia as well the law firm and corporate contexts, though by virtue of de facto independent contractor status of most professors, the groves of academe are sweet compared to the bitter hardships borne by single moms. [read post]
21 Apr 2010, 12:37 pm
Below is an essay by Deborah Pearlstein, an associate research scholar at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, for our thirty-day series on Justice Stevens. [read post]
27 May 2011, 10:20 am
by Deborah Pearlstein Cross-posted at Balkinization Bobby Chesney writes back with a thoughtful post responding to my question about whether the United States has forward-going detention needs in its counterterrorism operations that are currently unmet by the 2001 statute known as the AUMF. [read post]
29 Jan 2010, 10:20 am
by Deborah Pearlstein Cross-posted at Balkinization Ok, the headline is a bit misleading. [read post]
23 Oct 2009, 9:42 am
by Deborah Pearlstein Cross-posted at Balkinization Here follows a revised version of the blog I posted earlier today. [read post]
21 Mar 2008, 7:07 am
Putting on my doctrinalist's hat, rather than my historian's hat, I was nonplussed by Deborah Pearlstein's casual statement that if we recognized a fundamental right to keep and bear arms "that citizens would be able to carry guns with them pretty much anywhere, anyplace, for any reason. [read post]
23 Mar 2008, 1:05 pm
Deborah Pearlstein asks about the Munaf/Omar case being argued on Tuesday: "On the foreign affairs and the U.S. [read post]
3 Sep 2009, 12:37 pm
by Deborah Pearlstein Cross-posted at Balkinization I was all set to zone out this vacation when we happened to stroll past an SUV featuring one bumper sticker (among others) announcing: "Waterboarding: Keep it safe, legal and rare. [read post]
3 Jul 2011, 9:17 pm
Deborah Pearlstein and Ben have been exchanging posts in relation to the pending NDAA legislation and detention authority issues. [read post]
16 May 2012, 11:25 am
by Deborah Pearlstein This is the second day in our discussion of Professor Dickinson’s book Outsourcing War and Peace: Preserving Public Values in a World of Privatized Foreign Affairs. [read post]
