After months of internal wrangling and confusion over an ambitious nationwide program allowing state and local police agencies to identify immigrants with criminal records, Obama administration...
To the Editor: "Discord Grows on the Politics of Intervention" (front page, March 8) describes the tactical and political risks of American intervention in Libya, but nowhere does it state...
More than two dozen residents of Michigan filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against officials in the state contending that a new law broadly expanding the powers of emergency managers in the most...
...The Center for Constitutional Rights, Palestine Legal and the law office of Matthew Strugar. A news release from them said the law violates the First Amendment and is part of a broader effort to...
This article appears on The Huffington Post and Common Dreams. It is time for a revolution. Government does not work for regular people. It appears to work quite well for big corporations, banks,...
Gabriel Guzman has dark brown eyes, but it’s difficult to discern when you talk to him. That’s because Guzman, a former Illinois prison inmate, has a hard time maintaining eye contact, one of the...
When Sen. Pat Leahy (D-Vt.) yesterday proposed to an audience at Georgetown University the creation of a “truth and reconciliation commission” to investigate Bush administration lawbreaking, he...
President Obama’s speech Thursday was eagerly anticipated by those of us who have worked for years to challenge detentions at Guantanamo and targeted killings abroad. As much as we would like...
... Critics say the laws are drafted so broadly they could ensnare not just protesters but property owners and hikers on land shared with energy infrastructure. "Just being in the wrong place at the...
