JUDICIAL DISCLOSURE AND THE JUDICIAL MYSTIQUE.

The article focuses on the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in the case In re Al-Nashiri wherein the Court issued a writ of mandamus to retroactively disqualify a military judge and to vacate years' worth of his rulings. It mentions military judge had been secretly negotiating for an immigration judge appointment from the Attorney General, whilst the Justice Department was prosecuting a capital case before him in the Guantanamo military commissions.