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Justice
Brennan Center Files Brief Rebuffing Claim to Unilateral Detention Authority
The U.S. Government has made the unprecedented claim that it can hold a U.S. citizen virtually incommunicado and then hand him over to potential torture. A brief filed last Friday by lawyers for a U.S. citizen detained in Iraq for more than nineteen months decisively responds to this extraordinary claim of unchecked executive power.
– 06/26/06
Top Civil Rights Groups Join Challenge to NSA Spying
Today, the NAACP and five other leading civil rights organizations joined the growing challenge to the Administrations illegal National Security Agency spying program.
– 04/20/06
Wage Hike At Risk Due to Lack of Awareness
– 02/27/06