The court rejected a habeas petition from a Guantanamo detainee who argued that the government no longer has the legal authority to detain him
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A Landmark Ruling in Jeopardy
The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to wipe away the D.C. Circuit’s major 2016 ruling on net neutrality
Opinion Roundup for August 3, 2018
A labor law Catch-22, a FOIA request about prosecutorial misconduct, a vague clause in the criminal code, and more
Opinion Roundup for July 31, 2018
A flooded beach house, fights over electricity prices, a prisoner seeking transfer to Canada, and more
D.C. Circuit Keeps Manafort Behind Bars During His Trial
The court denied Manafort’s second challenge this month to get out of jail
National Security Clearances and the Role of the Courts
At a time when President Trump has threatened to revoke the security clearances of his critics, a little-noticed case raised an unanswered question about when courts can review security-clearance decisions
Court Upholds Ban on Religious Ads on Metro Buses
The D.C. transit authority did not violate the First Amendment by refusing to run an advertisement from the Catholic Church
Trump Administration Tells D.C. Circuit It Will Replace Clean Power Plan by Next Year
In a status report, the EPA responded to concerns from three of the court’s judges about the agency’s inaction on regulating power plants
After Lawsuit, EPA Abandons Pruitt’s Plan to Stop Enforcing Limits on High-Polluting Trucks
The about-face comes shortly after the D.C. Circuit issued an initial ruling in a newly filed challenge to Scott Pruitt’s non-enforcement memo on dirty trucks
The Senate on Kavanaugh: Then and Now
A look at how the same senators that voted on him in 2006 plan to vote now