Can a U.S. citizen be locked up for three-plus years without access to a court or opportunity to challenge the government’s reasons for detention? Today, the answer in America is a provisional “yes.” And last week the government took one important step toward cementing this “yes” into a permanent power.
Almost four months after The New York Times reported that the National Security Agency is spying on Americans in the United States without obtaining judicial warrants, we still are in the dark about what exactly the president ordered the NSA to do.
Time and again, we the people learn too late a measure ranked as essential to the nation’s safety is grounded on shifting factual sands. The founders of our nation, of course, anticipated the risk that government, in pursuing security, would overreach and err. What is dangerous is that the constitutional mechanisms crafted to identify, expose and check such foul-ups, which James Madison famously called our “auxiliary protections,” have recently faltered.
Counterterrorism Requires Accountability by Aziz Huq
Time and again, we the people learn too late a measure ranked as essential to the nations safety is grounded on shifting factual sands. The founders of our nation, of course, anticipated the risk that government, in pursuing security, would overreach and err. What is dangerous is that the constitutional mechanisms crafted to identify, expose and check such foul-ups, which James Madison famously called our auxiliary protections, have recently faltered.
Counting Noses in Prison
New York Times
Padilla Can't Wait
Can a U.S. citizen be locked up for three-plus years without access to a court or opportunity to challenge the government’s reasons for detention? Today, the answer in America is a provisional “yes.” And last week the government took one important step toward cementing this “yes” into a permanent power.
In the Dark on Wiretaps
Almost four months after The New York Times reported that the National Security Agency is spying on Americans in the United States without obtaining judicial warrants, we still are in the dark about what exactly the president ordered the NSA to do.
The Cost of Staying Out of Jail
NY Times Op-Ed.
Reaching Through the Prison Walls: Social Work in an Appellate Defender Office
A report on the relationship between social workers and lawyers in criminal defense offices.
Court Finds No Relief for Individual Handed to Syria for Torture
Counterterrorism Requires Accountability
Time and again, we the people learn too late a measure ranked as essential to the nation’s safety is grounded on shifting factual sands. The founders of our nation, of course, anticipated the risk that government, in pursuing security, would overreach and err. What is dangerous is that the constitutional mechanisms crafted to identify, expose and check such foul-ups, which James Madison famously called our “auxiliary protections,” have recently faltered.
Counterterrorism Requires Accountability
TomPaine.com
Thursday, March 09, 2006
Counterterrorism Requires Accountability
by Aziz Huq
Time and again, we the people learn too late a measure ranked as essential to the nations safety is grounded on shifting factual sands. The founders of our nation, of course, anticipated the risk that government, in pursuing security, would overreach and err. What is dangerous is that the constitutional mechanisms crafted to identify, expose and check such foul-ups, which James Madison famously called our auxiliary protections, have recently faltered.
Help storm refugees find shelter
Christian Science Monitor
March 08, 2006
Help storm refugees find shelter
Denying housing to those with criminal records will perpetuate cycles of crime.
by Kirsten D. Levingston
The Campaign Trial: The True Cost of Expensive Court Seats
The Campaign Trial: The True Cost of Expensive Court Seats.
By: James Sample
Thursday, March 6, 2006
Slate.com http://www.slate.com/id/2137529/
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