Analysis & Commentary
Liberty & National Security
Safe While Secure
Brennan Center’s Aziz Huq speaks at CAIR-NY’s event on Tuesday, October 21, 2008 at 6:30 pm.
– 10/17/08
The War on Crime as Precursor to the War on Terror
Aziz Huq and Chris Muller discuss the similarities of the 40-year-old “war on crime” and the current “war on terror,” coming to a sobering conclusion about the most recent use of this war paradigm.
Authored by: Aziz Huq and Christopher Muller
– Fall 2008
Justice Delayed and Denied at Guantanamo
In June of this year, the Supreme Court issued what Ronald Dworkin hailed as “one of the most important Supreme Court decisions in recent years” when it held that the detainees…
Authored by: Aziz Huq
– 09/29/08
Justice Denied
The resignation of Alberto Gonzales has brought a smile to the faces of many Bush Administration critics, but will it bring real change? Unless the Senate Judiciary Committee seizes its chance in a new Attorney General’s confirmation hearings, the danger is that Gonzales’s exit won’t just leave Justice tarnished--it will also mean justice denied.
Authored by: Aziz Huq
– 08/27/08
FBI Seeks Sweeping New Powers
Lame-duck administrations with abysmal poll ratings and no legislative agenda attract little attention. But to ignore the Bush Administration at this point is perilous: in its waning days, the Administration is turning the Federal Bureau of Investigation into a domestic intelligence agency with sweeping powers to profile and spy on law-abiding Americans.
Authored by: Aziz Huq
– 08/22/08
Ends & Means in War Crimes Trials
Unpacking two war crimes trials presently taking place—former leader of Bosnia’s wartime Serb government, Radovan Karadžić, and Osama bin Laden’s alleged driver, Salim Hamdan.
Authored by: Aziz Huq and Garth Schofield
– 08/06/08
Perversion of Justice
A scathing report issued Tuesday by the Justice Department’s Inspector General confirmed what has been an open secret. The Bush Administration has wrongfully and illegally politicized the Justice Department on a systematic basis through hiring practices that improperly took political or ideological factors into account.
Authored by: Emily Berman
– 07/27/08
Michael Waldman on Dan Abrams
Dan Abrams discusses Karl Rove’s pending testimony scheduled for this Thursday with the Brennan Center’s Michael Waldman and former counsel to the House Judiciary Committee Julian Epstein.
– 07/08/08
Justice Scalia’s Dueling Opinions
Scalia’s opinion in the ruling overturning D.C.’s gun ban shows the flaws of his trademark judicial thinking. Especially since he marshaled nearly the reverse logic in his dissent to the Guantanamo detainee case.
Authored by: Aziz Huq
– 06/30/08
Emily Berman on the Firing of US Attorneys
Emily Berman on KUOW’s “The Conversation” discussing the firing of nine US attorneys and executive privilege.
– 06/23/08