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On Wednesday, Dec. 9 at the National Press Club, Catherine Beane and Nkechi Taifa will participate in a panel discussion at an ACS event focusing on criminal justice reform policies. Sen. Jim Webb will provide a keynote address, Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar, President Obama's Special ...
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Jim Webb
Foreign Policy
Scott Murphy
By Robert Braun, Curtis Isack, Christine Ku and Hope Metcalf *
The world breathed a collective sigh of relief when-just days into his administration-President Obama issued a series of executive orders to phase out Guantanamo, end torture, and shutter the Bush-era web of secret ...
World
International Monetary Fund
Barack Obama
Afghanistan
9/11
Huffington Post
By Devon Chaffee, Advocacy Counsel, Human Rights First
Today military judge Lt. Col. Nancy J. Paul ruled on two motions in the case of Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al Qosi , bringing his case one step closer to trial before a military commission at Guantanamo Bay. In over five years since the ...
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Guantanamo Bay
9/11
Foreign Policy
Huffington Post
PTSD Defense via "Selective Empathy" : ACS Board member Linda Greenhouse on the Supreme Court overturning a veteran's death sentence .
Huckabee & Clemmons' Clemency : The former governor's persistent defense of clemency for an apparent cop-killer.
Civil Disobedience ...
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Jim Webb
Mike Huckabee
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By Peter M. Shane, the Jacob E. Davis
and Jacob E. Davis II Chair in Law at...
Ohio State University and author of Madison's Nightmare: How Executive Power Threatens American Democracy (University of Chicago, 2009) Roughly since the second ...
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High Court to Consider Separation of Powers in Upcoming ...
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By Sarah Gualtieri , Associate Professor of History and American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California
At a recent conference on Arab American history held in Los Angeles, a young man asked a question and identified himself as being with a student organization at ...
World
Sarah Palin
Congress is poised to release a report on the sharp drop in civil rights enforcement during George W. Bush's presidency. The 180-page General Accounting Office report is being made public today as the House of Representatives kicks off its first oversight hearings on the Justice Department's ...
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Barack Obama
George W. Bush
General David Petraeus
House of Representatives
By Alex J. Luchenitser, Senior Litigation Counsel for Americans United for Separation of Church and State
In the small Oklahoma town of Wakita, a prison ministry group is seeking to build a private, "all-Christian" prison. Inmates would be required to take part in ...
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Congress is moving to protect whistleblowers from employer retaliation. Buried in the Investor Protection Act is an amendment that would close a loophole that currently exposes some employees to the will of their employer for reporting corporate wrongdoing.
The Wall Street Journal ...
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Economic Meltdown
After 57 months, the case against Ahmed Ghailani (pictured) should be dismissed, his lawyers say . In a motion filed under sea l last month, and just released in part yesterday, Ghailani's attorneys argue that Ghailani's right to a speedy trial was violated, unduly prejudicing the case against ...
World
International Monetary Fund
Osama bin Laden
Foreign Policy
9/11
Huffington Post
Ohio state officials have agreed to settle a lawsuit that will require greater efforts by government officials to register low-income voters. The lawsuit brought by the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law and other public interest groups was based on Sec. 7 of the National Voter ...
Congress
Appropriations Committee
Operating under the spectre of additional filibusters, the Senate considered two of President Barack Obama's judicial nominations today.
The Senate Judiciary Committee, with only Senators Sheldon Whitehouse and Al Franken present, held a hearing on the nomination of Rhode Island Superior ...
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Fred Thompson
Sheldon Whitehouse
Al Franken
Barack Obama
The Supreme Court added to its docket and issued decisions involving a death-row inmate's ineffective counsel claim and photos of military treatment of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan. In Porter v. McCollum , the high court reversed a federal appeals court decision that turned away George ...
World
Iraq
Afghanistan
Public defender offices handled 352 cases per attorney in 2007, according to a new report released by the Justice Department. The caseloads are unlikely to decrease amid state budget shortfalls.
Legal blogger Matt Kelley writes :
Staffing cuts -- and therefore, caseload spikes -- ...
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FOIA FAIL : The Supreme Court vacated a ruling requiring the release of detainee abuse photos.
Next Stop, Charleston? : The South Carolina Attorney General said today that housing Guantanamo detainees at the naval brig near Charleston would put local residents at risk .
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International Monetary Fund
General David Petraeus
Homeland Security
Foreign Policy
9/11
Huffington Post
The use of solitary confinement is on the rise, according to a recent editorial in The Washington Post . In addition to increasing prisoners' risks of mental health issues , solitary confinement costs roughly twice as much as standard incarceration, says the Post .
Assessing those ...
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Angola
Foreign Policy
Washington Post
Huffington Post
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By Laurence Gold , a lawyer with Lichtman,
Trister & Ross, PLLC in Washington, DC Today or...
soon the Supreme Court will decide Citizens United v. FEC and, possibly, hold that the government cannot prohibit nonprofit advocacy ...
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Previewing the Decision: Citizens United v. FEC
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By Paul Butler , Associate Dean for Faculty
Development & Carville Dickinson Benson Research Professor of Law,...
The George Washington University Law School Let's Get Free: A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice is about why locking up so many people is bad for the average law-abiding citizen. ...
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On "Undercover Brothers," Conscience & Getting Free
Lawyers Harangue Solicitor General : In their brief on civil immunity for the architects of torture, attorneys representing four former Guantanamo detainees offered what "may be the most eloquent statement on the issue I've seen yet," says Daphne Eviatar at The Washington ...
World
International Monetary Fund
General David Petraeus
Foreign Policy
9/11
Huffington Post
Jimmy Carter
A new report by the Transform Drug Policy Foundation outlines how drugs might be regulated in a post-prohibition age.
On the pace of decriminalization, the report warns:
Proceeding on the precautionary principle -- that is, bringing in any new regulatory regimes in an incremental, ...
