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Between SCOTUS and a Hard Place
Aziz Huq
It was a bad week for the administration in the courts and in Congress. Don't let the absence of dramatic revelations, or the inundation of disappointing Supreme Court decisions, distract from the subtle incisions that were made. The cuts that may be hardly visible now, but in time they may yield more light that we have seen these past five years.

July 2, 2007
Liberty & National Security
Checks & Balances
Detainee Policy
Debtors' Prison -- Prisoners' Accumulation of Debt as a Barrier to Reentry
Kirsten D. Levingston, Vicki Turetsky
Prisoner's accumulation of debt as a barrier to reentry.

July 1, 2007
Reducing Mass Incarceration
How a Military Officer's Sworn Declaration Sheds New Light on Guantanamo's Flawed Detention System
Jonathan Hafetz
*Cross-Posted from FindLaw.com
June 29, 2007
Liberty & National Security
Detainee Policy
Supreme Court Decision Could Begin Guantanamo's Unraveling
Aziz Huq
The Supreme Court's decision today to hear challenges to the detentions at Guantánamo is a highly significant one that mark a watershed in the Bush...

June 29, 2007
Detainee Policy
Liberty & National Security
Pandora's Box of Corporate Money in Federal Elections Is Open Again
Deborah Goldberg, Ciara Torres-Spelliscy
Originally published on the Huffington Post, June 29, 2007

Anyone concerned about the role of money in politics should be worried about the conclusions reached earlier this week by the Supreme Court in FEC v. Wisconsin Right to Life Inc. ("WRTL"). For all practical purposes, corporations and unions have been given a green light to spend unlimited money on political ads again.
June 29, 2007
Money in Politics
Disclosure
Cheney and the Constitution
Aziz Huq
If it weren't so frightening, the irony would be delicious: A Vice President who has done more than any other to push the envelope on executive privilege at the expense of the courts and Congress takes the position that his office has both legislative and executive functions so as to avoid accounting for the use of classified materials.

June 26, 2007
Liberty & National Security
Checks & Balances
Manufacturing a "Scandal" at the Legal Services Corporation
Rebekah Diller
What to do when you have it in for a federal agency that is recognized on both sides of the aisle for providing high-quality services to Americans in need....

June 24, 2007
Closing the Justice Gap
Subpoenas and the NSA
Aziz Huq
Yesterday, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 13-3 to authorize subpoenas focused on the Bush Administration's warrant-less wiretapping program. Here is what...

June 22, 2007
Checks & Balances
Liberty & National Security
Privacy & Profiling
Re: John Fund's "Vote-Fraud Demagogues"
Wendy R. Weiser
Wall Street Journal
June 18, 2007
Letter to the Editor

Mr. Fund’s effort to resuscitate now-discredited arguments for voter ID relies on assertions, unproven accusations and innuendo more misleading than those he ascribes to its critics. For example, neither the U.S. Supreme Court nor Georgia’s high court endorsed voter IDs; both courts ruled on technical grounds.
June 18, 2007
Voting Rights & Elections
Restricting the Vote
How Military Commissions Obscure Gitmo's Real Purpose
Jonathan Hafetz
Last week's surprise rulings by two military judges at Guantanamo Bay threw into turmoil the president's effort to try suspected terrorists by military commissions. The rulings halted current proceedings involving two detainees and sparked new debates about the wisdom and legality of the commissions themselves. But larger questions remain about the role that such military commissions fill at Guantanamo, where the overriding purpose is to detain individuals without any trial at all. That purpose is obscured by the continued and misplaced focus on military trials -- a product of our cultural fascination with courtroom drama.

June 14, 2007
Liberty & National Security
Detainee Policy

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Debtors' Prison -- Prisoners' Accumulation of Debt as a Barrier to Reentry

How a Military Officer's Sworn Declaration Sheds New Light on Guantanamo's Flawed Detention System

Supreme Court Decision Could Begin Guantanamo's Unraveling

Pandora's Box of Corporate Money in Federal Elections Is Open Again

Cheney and the Constitution

Manufacturing a "Scandal" at the Legal Services Corporation

Subpoenas and the NSA

Re: John Fund's "Vote-Fraud Demagogues"

How Military Commissions Obscure Gitmo's Real Purpose

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