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D.C. Circuit Allows Continued Detention of One of Guantanamo’s ‘Forever Prisoners’

Posted on August 8, 2018

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

Posted on August 6, 2018

The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to wipe away the D.C. Circuit’s major 2016 ruling on net neutrality

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Opinion Roundup for August 3, 2018

Posted on August 6, 2018

A labor law Catch-22, a FOIA request about prosecutorial misconduct, a vague clause in the criminal code, and more

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Opinion Roundup for July 31, 2018

Posted on August 2, 2018

A flooded beach house, fights over electricity prices, a prisoner seeking transfer to Canada, and more

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D.C. Circuit Keeps Manafort Behind Bars During His Trial

Posted on August 1, 2018

The court denied Manafort’s second challenge this month to get out of jail

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National Security Clearances and the Role of the Courts

Posted on August 1, 2018

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

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Court Upholds Ban on Religious Ads on Metro Buses

Posted on August 1, 2018

The D.C. transit authority did not violate the First Amendment by refusing to run an advertisement from the Catholic Church

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Trump Administration Tells D.C. Circuit It Will Replace Clean Power Plan by Next Year

Posted on July 30, 2018

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

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After Lawsuit, EPA Abandons Pruitt’s Plan to Stop Enforcing Limits on High-Polluting Trucks

Posted on July 30, 2018

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

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The Senate on Kavanaugh: Then and Now

Posted on July 29, 2018

A look at how the same senators that voted on him in 2006 plan to vote now

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