Guantanamo military commission

The Guantanamo military commissions were originally established by President George W. Bush through a military order on November 13, 2001, to try certain non-citizen terrorism suspects at the Guantanamo Bay prison. In 2006, the Supreme Court found that the military commissions, as they operated, were unconstitutional, and Congress responded by passing the Military Commissions Act of 2006. Military commissions are currently governed by the Military Commissions Act of 2009.

32 Guantanamo Bay detainees were charged between 2004 and 2025. To date, there have been a total of eight convictions in the military commissions, six through plea agreements. Several of the eight convictions have been overturned in whole or in part on appeal by U.S. federal courts. There are five cases currently ongoing in the commissions and another two pending appeal, including United States v. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, et al.—the prosecution of the detainees alleged to be most responsible for the September 11 attacks. None of those five cases has yet gone to trial.