Anthony Clark Arend

The AP is reporting today:
Sudan’s Islamic scholars have issued a religious edict calling on the president not to travel to an Arab summit because of the international warrant against him on war crimes charges, state media reported Sunday.
The scholar’s fatwa, a nonbinding religious opinion, joins increasing calls in Africa’s largest nation for President Omar al-Bashir to skip the summit in …

My Georgetown colleague, Dan Nexon (also from
Duck of Minvera fame), has a new book coming out shortly from Princeton University Press. The Press’s website explains:
Scholars have long argued over whether the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, which ended more than a century of religious conflict arising from the Protestant Reformations, inaugurated the modern sovereign-state system. But they largely ignore a more …

ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo has suggested that Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir could be lawfully seized in international air space on his way to the Arab League Summit in Qatar.
The BBC reports:
Mr Moreno-Ocampo said that entering international airspace would be enough, since UN Security Council resolution 1583 [sic-- the correct resolution number is 1593] urges all UN members to co-operate with …

A previous post discussed the Obama Administration’s recent memo in which it articulatated a new approach to detention. Harvard professor Noah Feldman has an op ed in the New York Times discussing the memo. Feldman explains:
Cautious and modest where George W. Bush was ambitious and brash, Mr. Obama still claims the authority necessary to sustain almost everything his predecessor did.
Perhaps …

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In an interview Sunday with CNN’s John King (video here), former Vice President Dick Cheney was highly critical of the Obama Administration’s approach to counter-terrorism. Here is an excerpt from the interview:
KING: You made clear in an interview with the Politico when you left office that you were a little worried that President …

In a memo filed today with US District Court Judge John D. Bates, the Justice Department set forth its legal basis for detaining persons associated with terrorism and abandoned the use of the term “enemy combatant.” The memo can be found here. The memo states the new framework for detention as follows:
The President has the authority to detain persons that …

The previous post discussed President Obama’s memo on the use of signing statements and signaled a more modest approach than the previous Administration. Yesterday, the President issued a statement in connection with signature of H.R. 1150. The President explained:
Today I have signed into law H.R. 1105, the “Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009.” This bill completes the work of last year by …

On Monday, President Obama issued the following memo on the use of signing statements:

THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
______________________________________________________________________________
For Immediate Release Monday, March 9, 2009
March 9, 2009
Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies
SUBJECT: Presidential Signing Statements
For nearly two centuries, …