David Cole, national legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, is legal-affairs correspondent for The Nation. He is the author, most recently, of Engines of Liberty: How Citizen Movements Succeed.
Even stalwart liberals are knuckling under to the security state in the wake of September 11.
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To the Rehnquist Court, criminal justice is all too often a technical matter best left to the states.
The law governing the case of Elián González, the 6-year-old Cuban boy found clinging to an inner tube after his mother drowned on the way here from Cuba, could not be more clear.