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.
Court watchers are pronouncing the death of healthcare reform. But a closer look at Justice Kennedy’s questions suggests there’s hope yet.
Court watchers are pronouncing the death of healthcare reform. But a closer look at Justice Kennedy’s questions suggests there’s hope yet.
The individual mandate is not a threat to fundamental liberties.
With Obama’s signing of the National Defense Authorization Act, the prison becomes a permanent fixture.
That’s what the Obama administration is arguing for, in a crucial case now before the Supreme Court.
Anyone credibly alleging that he was tortured should have his day in court. But recent court decisions suggest that there will be accountability only for American citizens.
In the Sixth Circuit, it was a George W. Bush–appointed disciple of Justice Scalia who cast the decisive vote to uphold the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate.
As the US scales back the war in Afghanistan, shouldn’t we be scaling back the sacrifices of civil liberties we’ve made here at home?
The Spanish judge who dared to hold brutal human rights violators to account is now fighting for his legal career.
The drug war has been waged not only on traffickers and users but on liberty and equality.