Secret Courts Exploit Immigrants
Jacqueline Stevens : Migration & Immigration
You don't need to go to Iran or North Korea to find secret courts. Try attending a US immigration hearing.
2009
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Bush's Lingering Blacklist
David Cole
If we are to pursue our security without abandoning our ideals, laws on groups financing terror need drastic reform.
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Why We Detain the Innocent
Aziz Huq : Guantanamo Bay
Yet again the courts have ignored the Constitution and legal precedent, leaving seventeen innocent Guantánamo detainees in legal limbo.
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Torturing Binyam Mohamed
Barbara Ehrenreich : Torture
How America in the Bush years was so vicious and stupid that it managed to take my freedom of speech and turn it into someone else's living hell.
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A Matter of Justice
The Editors
Obama declines to "criminalize policy differences"--but what about holding lawbreakers to account?
2008
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Arms and the Right
Daniel Lazare : Guns & Gun Control
Two books dissect the contentious, confusing debate over gun control and the frequently misinterpreted Second Amendment.
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Unlawful Influence at Gitmo
Lieut. Cmdr. Brian Mizer has filed a motion to dismiss charges against Salim Hamdan, in light of new evidence documenting the improper involvement of political appointees.
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Pentagon General Counsel Resigns
As criticism over his support for torture and his interference in the Gitmo trials escalates, William J. Haynes steps down.
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The Voter ID Fraud
The conservatives ensconced on the Supreme Court are set to uphold draconian ID requirements on voters that will redefine electoral politics in America.
2007
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Setting the Record Straight on FISA
John Conyers : Civil Rights & Liberties
Civil liberties and national security are not contradictory: they are inextricably linked.
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Taking Power
Jonathan Schell : George W. Bush Administration
America is sleepwalking into one-man rule. What can the Democrats do about it?
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Reaganites Reconsider
Even staunch conservatives are becoming alarmed at the Bush Administration's unconstitutional expansion of presidential powers.
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Data-Mining Our Liberties
Aziz Huq : US Intelligence/Covert Ops
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?
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Dangerous Privilege
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.
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A White House Plan to Erode Our Liberties
Aziz Huq : Civil Rights & Liberties
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.
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Sick Justice
Alberto Gonzales now stands revealed as an unambiguous conspirator against the Constitution--as does his boss.
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The Persecution of Sami Al-Arian
Alexander Cockburn : The Courts
A Palestinian professor caught in the US legal system needs all the support we can muster, as respect for constitutional freedoms sinks ever lower.
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