Unchecked, unbalanced.(United States. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit)

Before the midterm elections, Congress helpfully provided official backing for the administration's then still-rogue approach to holding, trying, and prosecuting terror detainees. The congressional sanction has evidently put the wind back in the sails of administration lawyers, who, in simultaneous filings on November 13, both argued before the U.S. Court of Appeals for ...