Analysis & Commentary
Justice
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.
Authored by: Aziz Huq
– 04/11/06
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.
Authored by: Aziz Huq
– 04/04/06
Court Finds No Relief for Individual Handed to Syria for Torture
Authored by: Jonathan Hafetz
– 03/15/06
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.
Authored by: Aziz Huq
– 03/09/06
Counterterrorism Requires Accountability
Authored by: Aziz Huq
– 03/09/06
Help storm refugees find shelter
– 03/08/06
At the NSA, the Enemy is Us
President Bush famously said that his administration took the battle overseas so that we would not need to fight the war at home. Revelations about the NSA’s warrantless domestic spying suggest that this formulation has the administration’s logic backward: The authority to conduct war elsewhere has been treated as permission to bring the tools of war back home.
Authored by: Aziz Huq
– 03/02/06
NYC Health Care Security Act - FAQ
Authored by: Brennan Center for Justice, New York Jobs With Justice
– 03/01/06
Minimum Wage, Maximum Benefits
– 03/01/06
Openness and Accountability at Guantanamo
Authored by: Jonathan Hafetz
– 02/21/06