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mdj writes in response to my controversial list of the 8 worst presidents on civil liberties issues:Jimmy Carter was the worst, then Bill Clinton for many reasons. The People...
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Jesse Helms died today at age 86. His death shouldn't please anybody; he retired from the Senate six years ago, and at this point in life he was somebody's...
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The New York Times reports that a government chart listing "alternative interrogation" techniques to be used at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp was actually plagiarized from an unlikely source:The 1957...
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So I've just written up the eight worst presidents in U.S. history on civil liberties issues, but I'm guessing some of you will disagree with my choices or their placement....
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In November, California voters will decide whether to modify their constitution to ban and invalidate thousands of same-sex marriages. Poll data on the health of the amendment is hardly...
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University of Chicago law professor Geoffrey R. Stone would like to see the next president appoint a cabinet-level official to oversee civil liberties concerns:Presidents have a wide range of official...
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More About: George Carlin (1937-2008) | Wordless WednesdayGeorge Carlin receives a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 15th Annual American Comedy Awards.Photo: Kevin Winter / Getty Images....
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Background: History of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)Photo: Alex Wong / Getty Images.My colleague Kathy Gill, of About.com: U.S. Politics, is rightly hammering Congress and both presidential candidates for...
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More About: Same-Sex Marriage in California | Wordless WednesdayJune 17th, 2008 at San Francisco City Hall.Photo: Justin Sullivan / Getty Images....
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More About: Boumediene v. Bush | John McCain on Civil LibertiesPhoto: Mario Tama / Getty Images.Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) essentially defined African Americans as subhuman. Plessy v. Ferguson...
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With the Senate's FISA vote delayed, we have one more chance to sway Congress -- and Obama -- to reject this dangerous legislation.
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Impeachment is a critical way to curb executive power gone amok. Without public support, presidents will continue to abuse their authority.
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How Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay basically turned into an organized sex-crime ring in which the trafficked sex slaves were US-held prisoners.
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Obama campaign tries to control the impact of his stance on FISA.
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Years after he was found not guilty in a federal court, the Bush administration is keeping a Palestinian university professor jailed, in legal limbo.
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Warmongerer and neocon Christopher Hitchens just noticed that waterboarding is torture!
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The ruling in Parhat v. Gates invokes Lewis Carroll: "the fact the government has 'said it thrice' does not make an allegation true."
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Intolerance isn't just popular among the ignorant. It is within every one of us.
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Citing national security, a federal court rules that Maher Arar, who was kidnapped at JFK and sent to Syria by the U.S., had no due process rights.
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It took two trips to the electric chair to kill murder suspect Francis, whose unfair trial catapulted racial justice into public consciousness.
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The June 26th hearing was an important first step in educating Congress about why a federal law protecting transgender employees is sorely needed.
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If you listen to Bush's legal advisors, questions about the limits of his authority might not be hypothetical anymore.
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Pragmatism prevails amid anti-immigrant fervor.
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Months after completing a sentence he never should have had to serve in the first place, Sami Al-Arian faces new trumped up charges by the Bush DoJ.
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A muscular group of religious, military and former government officials has created an anti-torture declaration. The names may surprise you.
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Children who enter the US parentless may undergo a series of harsh trials before they ever reach the courtroom to seek asylum.
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In a reactionary political calculation, Barack Obama comes out in support of the death penalty for child rape.
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The Court's decision played into the unhelpful stereotypes of "gun rights" and "gun control."
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Congress thought granting immunity to phone companies that violate our rights was a good idea. Tens of thousands of their constituents disagreed.
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The Democrats' capitulation on FISA is a triumph of Congressional self-importance over the guardianship of our Constitutional rights.