Research

  • Waging Lawfare

    Aziz Huq

    Since 9/11, the Bush administration has conjured many enemies for the United States: Brutal dictators ensconced in the desert with their Weapons of Mass Destruction, airplane passengers who carry on baby-food and mascara to their flights. And now salivating hordes of foreign lawyers and judges.

    November 22, 2006
    Liberty & National Security
    Checks & Balances

  • Undo the Military Commissions Act

    Aziz Huq

    The general understanding -if not the universal practice-is that those on Capitol Hill answer to today's voters, but not tomorrow's. On matters such as global climate change, the consequences are evident. Today's leaders face too small a reckoning for their disregard of ethical obligations to our planet and future generations. Pushing back today's problems, they store up crises for our children.

    November 21, 2006
    Liberty & National Security
    Checks & Balances

  • No Blank Checks on Torture

    Jonathan Hafetz

    More than two years ago, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor cautioned that "a state of war is not a blank check for the President." The United States Congress, apparently, never got the memo. Last week, lawmakers passed a bill that hands the President sweeping detention and interrogation powers while eliminating habeas corpus review for any noncitizen he labels an "enemy combatant."

    October 9, 2006
    Liberty & National Security
    Checks & Balances
    Detainee Policy

  • Terror 2016

    Aziz Huq

    This week, Republicans -aided by Democratic fecklessness-bargained away both liberty and decency in the name of partisan security

    September 29, 2006
    Liberty & National Security
    Checks & Balances
    Detainee Policy

  • We're All Enemy Combatants Now

    Aziz Huq

    Today in the Senate Judiciary Committee the Bush administration will unveil proposed new legislation to respond to the Supreme Court's June ruling in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld. A final version of this legislation remained concealed right up to the day before the Senate hearing. Such secrecy disarms the public-and more importantly for today's hearing, congressional staffers who need to brief their bosses-from analyzing and understanding the draft. This secrecy, aside from some leaked drafts of the bill, should sound alarm bells about what the administration is about to propose.

    August 2, 2006
    Liberty & National Security
    Checks & Balances
    Detainee Policy

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