Here's my dispatch, with a warning... It dwells on the defendant's time in CIA detention, and ends with a sharp exchange between a Navy prosecutor and psychiatrist over the practice of "rectal refeeding." www.justsecurity.org/161589/defen...

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An Army psychiatrist who disagrees may testify tomorrow. With up to three more possible witnesses yet to testify, including the psychiatrist Dr. Michael Welner for the government, the judge has once again postponed jury selection -- this time to Nov. 2.

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Latest in Guantanamo's longest running capital case, with a warning and a link to a @justsecurity.org article at the end of this thread: Competency hearings are underway with mental health experts for the prisoner declaring the defendant in the USS Cole bombing case is not fit to face trial.

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This thread is worth your time 🧵

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Over public dissents from Justices Thomas and Alito, #SCOTUS *denies* the Trump administration’s request for emergency relief in the transgender federal prisoner medical care case—leaving in place lower court rulings requiring the continuing provision of care for gender dysphoria.

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