Guantanamo judge rebuked, all orders over past 3.5 years vacated

Any orders entered after November 2015, the date that Spath applied to be an immigration judge, will be voided “to scrub the case of judicial bias,” the appeals court said. “Yet in this case, save for al-Nashiri’s defense counsel, all elements of the military commission system—from the prosecution team to the Justice Department to the CMCR to the judge himself—failed to live up to that responsibility.” Although the appeals court voided orders adverse to the lawyers, Toral says, a different order remains in effect: an order by the chief defense counsel for the military commissions that permits their withdrawal.

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