Aziz Huq

Aziz Huq directs the liberty and national security project at New York University's Brennan Center for Justice. He is co-author of Unchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in a Time of Terror (New Press, 2007)

He is a 2006 recipient of the Carnegie Scholars Fellowship and has published scholarship in the Columbia Law Review, the Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law, and the New School's Constellations Journal. He has also written for Himal Southasian, Legal Times and the American Prospect, and appeared as a commentator on Democracy Now! and NPR's Talk of the Nation.

Surveillance Bill: The Worst of All Worlds

June 20, 2008

House Democrats capitulate to pass a surveillance bill that further compromises our privacy and limits accountability of the government and telecoms. Will the Senate fight back?
War of Words

May 22, 2008

An argument over how US officials should speak about terrorism bodes ill for this political season.
After Gitmo

May 13, 2008

America's legal and moral responsibility to innocent detainees is not more imprisonment, but a new life in the United States.
Fitna's Hateful Crusade

April 7, 2008

The new film by Dutch politician Geert Wilders is the latest in a series of stunts aimed at humiliating and scapegoating Muslims.
Undoing the Bush Legacy

February 8, 2008

No matter who becomes the next President, the clammy fingers of Bush and Cheney will be wrapped around vital national policies. It's up to Congress to break their grip.

2007

Another Death in Rawalpindi

December 27, 2007

The killing of Benazir Bhutto echoes Pakistan's troubled history, portends more violence and flags a proud country's collapse into chaos. It also signals the manifest bankruptcy of the Bush Administration's anti-terrorism.
Torture Tapes: Failure at All Levels

December 11, 2007

CIA, Department of Justice, White House--and members of Congress--ran through every legal and procedural red light designed to prevent criminal conduct and its cover-up.
Protecting the Wiretappers

September 27, 2007

Telecommunications giants already are shielded from lawsuits for future warrantless spying; now the White House seeks to absolve them of past misdeeds.
Justice Denied

August 27, 2007

Alberto Gonzales leaves office with the Justice Department tarnished, the rule of law debased and our civil liberties significantly eroded. It now falls to Congress--and the next President--to repair the damage he's done.
Data-Mining Our Liberties

August 7, 2007

Despite blistering criticism of warrantless surveillance, the Bush Administration rammed a law through Congress that authorizes spying on our calls and e-mails. How did they get away with it?
Dangerous Privilege

July 26, 2007

We need a law to define and limit the President's claim of executive privilege, and should set a process for Congress to overcome it.
Cheney and the Constitution

June 26, 2007

If you think the Vice President's abuse of power is scary now, consider what might happen when he counts Electoral College votes in a divisive 2008 election.
A White House Plan to Erode Our Liberties

June 8, 2007

Beyond its power to jail terror detainees, the Military Commissions Act is the spearhead of a more sustained and long-term incursion on all our civil liberties. It must be rolled back.
Gitmo Justice

April 4, 2007

David Hicks pleads guilty and goes free, while the Supreme Court denies nearly 400 other terror suspects their day in court. This is justice?
Framing the Presidency

February 19, 2007

What kind of executive branch of government did the framers of the Constitution have in mind? Not the runaway powers now claimed by the Bush Administration.

2006

Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: Guidepost or Relic?

July 14, 2006

As the Bush Administration continues to exercise an inordinate amount of power, will the Supreme Court's Hamdan v. Rumsfeld ruling become a guidepost for future government or a last lonely relic of a proud lost era?

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