For the past eight years, Democratic members of Congress have been issuing pleas for greater transparency, accountability, and a return to the rule of law....
Judging from a recent interview, it appears Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) would like to educate citizens and investigate the Bush Administration's past policies....
Let's not allow the financial news overshadow an important development in D.C. that may actually work to hold the Bush Administration accountable for equally threatening damage done under this Administration's watch....
For an Administration that has spilled gallons of ink in efforts to justify its extreme pro-Executive views, the Bush White House sure has fared poorly in court....
"The very core of liberty secured by our Anglo-Saxon system of separated powers has been freedom from indefinite imprisonment at the will of the Executive," or so they (Justice Scalia) say.
Barry Siegel, Pulitzer-Prize winning former national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times and author of Claim of Privilege, weighs in on the the case.
Yesterday, I managed to catch Larry Lessig's latest "Change Congress" Power Point presentation at the Personal Democracy Forum (PDF) here in New York City....
Today, the Supreme Court's decision in Boumediene v. Bush was a clear rebuke of the Administration's attempt to deny Guantanamo detainees' basic rights....
