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Counterterrorism Requires Accountability
Aziz Huq

TomPaine.com
Thursday, March 09, 2006

Counterterrorism Requires Accountability
by Aziz Huq

Time and again, we the people learn too late a measure ranked as essential to the nations safety is grounded on shifting factual sands. The founders of our nation, of course, anticipated the risk that government, in pursuing security, would overreach and err. What is dangerous is that the constitutional mechanisms crafted to identify, expose and check such foul-ups, which James Madison famously called our auxiliary protections, have recently faltered.
March 9, 2006
Liberty & National Security
Checks & Balances
Help storm refugees find shelter

Christian Science Monitor

March 08, 2006

Help storm refugees find shelter

Denying housing to those with criminal records will perpetuate cycles of crime.

by Kirsten D. Levingston
March 8, 2006
Reducing Mass Incarceration
The True Cost of Expensive Court Seats
James Sample

Today, the Supreme Court passed on the chance to give states guidance as to when judicial recusal might be constitutionally required. States do not have the corresponding luxury of ignoring that question.

March 6, 2006
Fair Courts
The Campaign Trial: The True Cost of Expensive Court Seats
James Sample

The Campaign Trial: The True Cost of Expensive Court Seats.

By: James Sample

Thursday, March 6, 2006

Slate.com http://www.slate.com/id/2137529/
March 6, 2006
Fair Courts
At the NSA, the Enemy is Us
Aziz Huq

President Bush famously said that his administration took the battle overseas so that we would not need to fight the war at home. Revelations about the NSA’s warrantless domestic spying suggest that this formulation has the administration’s logic backward: The authority to conduct war elsewhere has been treated as permission to bring the tools of war back home.

March 2, 2006
Liberty & National Security
Privacy & Profiling
Checks & Balances
Minimum Wage, Maximum Benefits
March 1, 2006
Justice for All
Racial Justice
Bringing Democracy to the Courts
Michael Waldman

Campaign reform makes at least as much sense for judicial races as for their congressional cousins.

February 24, 2006
Money in Politics
Fair Courts
Of Threats, Intimidation, Sensitivity, and Free Speech: The Muhammad Cartoons

Posted 2/22/2006

Of Threats, Intimidation, Sensitivity, and Free Speech:

The Muhammad Cartoons

by Marjorie Heins

Countless words have been spilled over the Danish newspaper JyullandsPosten’s publication last September of 12 cartoons commenting on journalistic self-censorship and Islamic beliefs, including several that caricatured the prophet Muhammad. Surely, everything has been said by now.
February 22, 2006
Liberty & National Security
Openness and Accountability at Guantanamo
Jonathan Hafetz
February 21, 2006
Liberty & National Security
Checks & Balances
Seeking Truth On Wiretaps
Aziz Huq

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales testifies today to the Senate Judiciary Committee on the National Security Agency’s warrantless spying on Americans at home. The American public has heard a great deal from the Bush administration about its power and the looming terrorist threat. Today, Gonzales is likely to hum more bars of the same tune.

February 6, 2006
Liberty & National Security
Privacy & Profiling
Checks & Balances

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