Amy Bach is the author of Ordinary Injustice: How America Holds
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Liberal groups are also concentrating on influencing the next generation of legal scholars.
Recently deported, Ghasson Dahduli is now missing in Jordanian custody, and his family worries about what he's being subjected to.
On October 26, President Bush signed into law an antiterrorism package dismantling many privacy protections that Americans had long taken for granted.
For many indigent defendants, the right to a lawyer doesn't mean much.
While most of the 1,500 people who traveled to Albany from all over New York State last Tuesday endured freezing winds outside the legislature to tell stories of families torn apart and chant s
Selma, Alabama, a touchstone in the civil rights movement, is frozen in a way that confounds onlookers.