The Associated Press has one of the most comprehensive looks at how the lasting outrage at Rudy Giuliani within the firefighter and 9/11 victims communities in New York is going to remain an issue for him during the presidential campaign. Giuliani is effectively running for president on his reputation as “America’s Mayor” following the 9/11 […]

Geoffrey Stone, guest blogging chez ACS:
The Justice Department’s audit of the NSL program reveals, once again, the profound difference between government by executive decree and government by checks and balances. From 2003 to 2005, the FBI issued more than 140,000 NSLs. Although the FBI is required by law to report its use of this authority […]

As a law student I am exposed every day to new areas of our legal system. It is a truly powerful tool–arguably the foundation of our society. However, with each new doctrine and epiphany I am forced to remember our system’s shortcomings: its costs, its potential for abuse, and its selectiveness. Of […]

Bob Geiger, the blogosphere’s resident expert on all things Senate related, has authored a comprehensive analysis of how Senator Christopher Dodd’s Effective Terrorist Prosecution Act (S.4060) fixes the Military Commissions Act of 2006, how it works, and what it does. The MCA is more commonly known as the torture bill or the habeas corpus […]

Our anti-terrorism policy is now being informed by the same voice that spoke to Kevin Costner in “Field of Dreams”: If you build it, he will come. Only instead of building a baseball diamond (Cuba’s got plenty already) the Bush administration is building a facility to hold war crimes trials at Guantánamo Bay to the […]

SEC. 1076. USE OF THE ARMED FORCES IN MAJOR PUBLIC EMER-
GENCIES.
(a) USE OF THE ARMED FORCES AUTHORIZED.–
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Code, is […]

Today is the final day to weigh on this issue. It is imperative. Please check out the Common Cause site and their Protect Net Neutrality campaign.
And to learn more about the historical context that set all this in motion, including Bill Clinton’s onerous Telecommunications Act of 1996, which was a $72 billion boondoggle […]

Times Online: US offers amnesty in secret talks
[More quote added by Matt: AMERICAN forces are negotiating an amnesty with Sunni insurgents in Iraq to try to defuse the nascent civil war and pave the way for disarmament of Shia militias, The Times has learnt.
The tactic marks a dramatic reversal of policy by the US military, […]

via Glenn. Reposted because it matters:
Last week, Padilla’s lawyers filed a Motion to Dismiss the Indictment against him on the grounds that the Government has engaged in outrageous conduct — specifically, that they tortured him for the 3 1/2 years he remained in captivity, particularly for the almost 2 full years that they denied him […]

Hamdan v. Rumsfeld was a landmark case that drove the White House to finally bow down to the power of the legislature before screwing it into submission with the help of McCain (who managed to outlaw rape of prisoners but not of Congress). Throughout the affair, though I was shocked and upset by the […]