Analysis & Commentary
Liberty & National Security
The Freewheeling Executive
Authored by: Aziz Huq
– 12/22/05
License To Spy
– 12/19/05
America’s Gulag Problem
Everybody but Dick Cheney knows it: America has a Guantnamo problem. While Vice President Dick Cheney continues to insist that Guantnamos detainees are the worst of a very bad lot, the rest of the world sees the Cuban prison as a symbol of hubris and a rallying cry for Al Qaeda. Calling the camp an anomaly that has to be dealt with, even staunch administration ally Tony Blair has joined the worldwide chorus pressing the Bush administration to solve Guantnamo.
Authored by: Aziz Huq
– 12/15/05
U.S. Must Not Repeal a Basic Right
Authored by: Jonathan Hafetz
– 11/14/05
Beyond Kafka
A lawyer looks at French heretics, Moscow show trials, Nuremberg prosecutions, and more. Aziz Huq talks to Sadakat Kadri, author of “The Trial: A History, from Socrates to O.J. Simpson.”
Authored by: Aziz Huq
– 11/09/05
The Other Side of the Crackdown
Tram Nguygen’s new book about post-9-11 immigration enforcement makes an important contribution to the debate about the balance of rights and security. She examines counterterrorism strategies from a perspective often discounted in the formulation of national policy: that of those who most often find themselves at the wrong end of a gun barrel.
Authored by: Aziz Huq
– 09/30/05
Exposing Ashcroft’s Ethnic Dragnet: U.S. Treatment of Middle Eastern Residents Mirrors the Fate of Those with Japanese Heritage
Authored by: Jessie Allen
– 12/18/01
Palestinian Case Skirts Free-Speech Protection
The case of Reno v. American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee 97-1252, to be argued before the Supreme Court Nov. 4, reviews whether an individual deserves prompt judicial review when asserting a First Amendment defense in response to the government’s prosecution. Its not a high-profile case, but the principle at stake is constitutional bedrock, and the case requires the court to fulfill its critical, if not always popular, role in our tripartite democracy.
Authored by: Marta E. Nelson, in The National Law Journal
– 11/02/98