Commentary
Op-Ed In New York Times: “Relase Justice’s Secrets”
Senior Counsel, Fritz Schwarz and Nicholas Katzenbach’s op-ed in the New York Times on what the judiciary branch must to do prevent continued secrecy of the executive.
Authored by: Frederick A.O.Schwarz
– 11/20/07
Push Back
Authored by: By Aziz Huq and Frederick A.O. Schwarz Jr.
It’s Not Fraud, It’s Alienated Voters
Authored by: James Sample
– 11/01/07
Public Financing of Campaigns Off to a Great Start
Here in Connecticut, the system offers a chance for the state to shed its reputation as “Corrupticut” and instead provide a model of open and honest government.
Authored by: Bethany Foster and Ciara Torres-Spelliscy
– 10/10/07
Keeping God Out of It
There is a scene in one of Ian Rankin’s marvelous Inspector Rebus detective novels at which a young English police-woman, freshly posted to Rebus’s Edinburgh, errs in her choice of soccer team. She gets a short tutorial on the importance of religion in the contemporary world. There are different teams, she’s told, “‘wherever you’ve got Catholics and Protestants in the same place.’ Manchester had United (Catholics) and City (Protestant), Liverpool had Liverpool (Catholic) and Everton (Protestant). It only got complicated in London. London even had Jewish teams.”
Authored by: Aziz Huq
– 10/02/07
Keeping God Out of It
Authored by: Aziz Huq
– 10/02/07
It’s Time for an Independent Investigation of America’s Intelligence Strategy
Authored by: Frederick A.O. Schwarz Jr. and Aziz Z. Huq
– 10/01/07
Out of the Courtroom and into the Neighborhood
Public defenders embrace community defenders. They have begun to embrace more community-orientated forms of advocacy that push a defender’s skill beyond the courtroom and the individual case.
Authored by: Kirsten D. Levingston
– 10/01/07
Protecting the Wiretappers
Bowing to White House pressure, Congress passed the 2007 Protect America Act in August, eviscerating any meaningful checks and balances on a sweeping range of governmental surveillance. Now that it has protected telecommunications giants from all future liabilities, the Administration is demanding they be granted amnesty from legal liability for past complicity in spying on ordinary Americans.
Authored by: Aziz Huq
– 09/27/07
Women in the Criminal Justice System
Women are being charged with crimes, convicted, and sentenced to prison at a much higher rate than just 20 years ago. The authors explore and analyze this disturbing trend.
Authored by: Kirsten D. Levingston with Kayla Gassmann
– 09/01/07