Is Breyer floating a Guantanamo solution?

WASHINGTON - When a Supreme Court justice mentions an idea of how Congress might solve a pending national security problem, you pay attention.

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McCarthy explains why the Bush administration was unable to try the Guantanamo prisoners

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Right-wing polemicists today are shrieking in self-pitying protest over a new report from the Department of Homeland Security sent to local police forces which warns of growing "right-wing extremist activity." The report (.pdf) identifies attributes of these right-wing extremist …

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HRH Obama?

The election of Barak Obama was greeted in America with hope. That was one of the main themes of his campaign. The other was "Change". He doesn't promise we'll LIKE that change, but he does promise change. After 8 years of Bush The Idiot, any change seemed like it would be good.

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Nixon, at least, had Gerald Ford issue his pardon. While the world wondered if Bush would pre-emptively pardon his torture gang on the last day, most forgot… he already did. Well, at least he tried to make sure he would not have to rely on another President's largesse.

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110th CONGRESS 2d Session H. RES. 1509

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On Fox News Sunday, Bill Kristol criticized the Supreme Court's decision striking down portions of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 (MCA) and suggested that fears about that law's denial of the writ of habeas corpus were overblown because "American citizens ...

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As the swing vote on a polarized United States Supreme Court, Justice Anthony Kennedy is among the most powerful men in the country.

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The George W. Bush administration responded to the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon with an assault on U.S.

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The Center for Constitutional Rights sent out this email with a Fact Sheet about the Military Commissions Act (torture bill) which I Have appended to their message/petition.

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This week, the next round in the Bush administration's epic struggle against 800 years of Anglo-American legal tradition will unfold as the Supreme Court hears the latest in the "Guantanamo cases." ...

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Sen. Chris Dodd gave a great statement on the floor of the Senate this morning. You can watch video here on his Senate website.

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The Military Commissions Act. Warrantless wiretapping. Shredding of Habeas Corpus. Torture. Extraordinary Rendition. Secret Prisons. No more.

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Habeas Corpus - The Great Writ and the Cornerstone of Liberty

Congress had the opportunity to pass a vitally important bill last week that would restore basic liberties to the people of this nation.

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This is about a year old, but still worth revisiting because it never got enough press last year: Deep within the "Terrorist Tribunal" Act is a provision retroactively pardoning the President, Vice President, and their subordinates for violations of the War Crimes Act committed s …

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Senators Chris Dodd (D-CT) and Patrick Leahy (D-VT) announced that they were reintroducing the Habeas Corpus Restoration Act as an amendment to a defense authorization bill today.

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In 2006, acting in reckless haste before an election, 65 senators and 250 members of the House defied the Constitution, endangered the safety of American soldiers and hurt the nation's global reputation by passing the Military Commissions Act.

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After enduring weeks of blistering criticism for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales's inartful elisions about the National Security Agency (NSA) spying activities, the Bush Administration has successfully forced on Congress a law that largely authorizes open-ended surveillance of  …

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Is the CIA doing the United States more harm than good by interrogating suspected terrorists in secret prisons overseas? Inquiring minds on the Senate Intelligence Committee want to know, and they're entitled to an answer.

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President George W Bush cannot order the indefinite military detention of a Qatari man accused of being an al-Qaeda agent, a US appeals court has ruled.

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The Military Commissions Act, passed last year by the Republican Congress, stripped away the fundamental Constitutional right of habeas corpus. Now the Senate Judiciary Committee, in voting for the Restoration Act, has taken the first step in restoring it.

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Today the Senate Judiciary Committee passed an important bill to restore habeas corpus, the sacrosanct Constitutional right to challenge government detention in court, by a vote of eleven to eight.

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If the Bush administration forces the CIA to drop "tough" interrogation techniques like waterboarding, the agency will probably fall back on a brutal method that leaves no physical marks.

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The Bush administration's attempt to create an alternative justice system for terrorism suspects, in the works for more than five years, has yet to complete a single trial.

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(from a response on this to a friend) I have to fight the malaise caused by the sheer disappointment that the Dems didn't just throw out the whole Military Commissions Act and then force the President and all his toadies to vote over and over on torture.

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The Military Commissions Act of 2006 is, without question, the single worst law enacted during the Bush presidency, and is one of the most destructive laws passed in the last several decades. It is not merely a bad law.

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