Lamberth Doesn’t Seem to Think the Boumediene Sky Is Falling

By: emptywheel Wednesday June 18, 2008 10:10 am

Because Chief Judge Royce Lamberth of the DC Circuit (where many Gitmo habeas petitions are currently pending) sure seems to be moving forward on developing procedures to give the Gitmo prisoners their habeas petitions.

U.S. District Court Chief Judge Royce C. Lamberth met today with lawyers from the Department of Justice and representatives of the Guantanamo detainees to discuss how the court should proceed in light of last week’s Supreme Court decision

WHORM and WAVES

By: emptywheel Tuesday December 18, 2007 1:34 am

Amid the excitement today, you may have missed the news that the White House visitor logs are public documents. I’m sure this will be in the Courts for another year and a half–at which point Dick will invite Scalia to go quail hunting again, and we’ll never get the records. But for now, look at the oozing skepticism of Judge Royce Lamberth.

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