Originally published on Thursday, December 23, 2010 by CommonDreams.org The right to liberty is one of the foundation rights of a free people. The idea that any US President can bypass Congress and...
Updated: December 23, 2010
This article was originally published on Huffington Post on December 28, 2010 Eight young people, who the Fire Department said were "trying to stay warm," perished in a raging fire during...
Updated: December 29, 2010
This article was originally posted on Huffington Post on January 6, 2011 05:00 PM It is disappointing to see the same president who ran on his constitutional law professor bona fides devote so much...
Updated: January 7, 2011
This article was originally posted on January 10, 2011 on IndyBlog Question: How does a mentally unstable man who was kicked out of school and had run-ins with the law buy an assault weapon?
Updated: January 10, 2011
January 27, 2011 - In recent remarks on U.S.-Latin American relations made at the Brookings Institute, Arturo Valenzuela, a State Department official with responsibility for the region, commented...
Updated: January 28, 2011
Apparently, former president, George W. Bush does “cut and run.” On February 7, 2011, two torture victims were to have filed criminal complaints for torture against former president...
Updated: February 8, 2011
Today the Center for Constitutional Rights delegation in Haiti visited the Barbancourt II displacement camp in Port-Au-Prince. This camp is home to 310 families who lost their homes in the earthquake...
Updated: March 17, 2011
by Leili Kashani, Center for Constitutional Rights This month marks five years since three men who were never charged with any crime died in US custody at Guantánamo under circumstances that...
Updated: June 20, 2011
By Jocelyn Brooks and Greger Calhan, Center for Constitutional Rights Ella Baker legal interns in Port-au-Prince July 14, 2011 — Standing out amidst the wreckage of a destroyed tent were a...
Updated: July 14, 2011
What will we say when other governments follow our example by providing immunity from prosecution to torturers? The Romans had an expression for it: "Nulla poena sine lege," no punishment...
Updated: July 19, 2011
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