CQ Homeland Security

Behind the Lines for Monday, May 11, 2009 — 3 P.M.

By David C. Morrison, Special to Congressional Quarterly

Courts and rights: ... The chief judge for the Pentagon’s military commissions has scheduled the next war court hearing for late May, says a document obtained by The Miami Herald. “Often, doing the right thing is neither popular nor convenient,” Rep. Jim Moran, D-Va., remarks in a Post op-ed enunciating his hopes that Alexandria would bite the bullet if transferred Gitmo prisoners end up at its courthouse-detention center— while The Detroit Free Press finds ex-Gov. John Engler urging that Michigan offer up one of its soon-to-be-excess state prisons as the new holding pen.