A military judge on Thursday barred a Pentagon official from taking part in a second war crimes trial at Guantanamo Bay, providing more ammunition for detainee lawyers who allege that political interference taints the proceedings.
The ruling will fuel defense challenges in other trials at the U.S. Navy base, where a former chief prosecutor and defense lawyers have accused Air Force Brig Gen. Thomas Hartmann, the legal adviser to the tribunals, of demanding that certain cases be pursued over others based on political considerations.
The justice department’s civil rights division is shifting its focus away from its longstanding work protecting...
The American Civil Liberties Union asked the US supreme court to block what the group called...
A federal judge on Friday ordered that a Turkish Tufts University student detained by immigration authorities...
