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Congratulations, Justice Scalia! Now we can all look forward to years of arguing over just exactly when, where and how the right to have guns in the home applies.

Is Obama being a shrewd politician or selling out civil liberties? That's the question raised by Glenn Greenwald's tough new column taking Obama to task for supporting the bogus "compromise" bill.

Democratic leaders in Congress are poised to grant new spying powers to President Bush and arrange retroactive amnesty for telecommunications companie...

Congress has yet again renewed the Byrne Justice Assistance Grant program, a federal law enforcement grant program that is feeding the war on drugs and fueling racial disparities, police corruption, and civil rights abuses.

The Democratic-led Congress, with the support of key House leaders, is moving quickly to expand unconstitutional spying authority on Americans and reward telecoms for breaking the law.

After the craziness of CA, and I must say there was some flaunting and taunting -- "So when are you and yours coming out her to get married?" -- it was great to be back in New York.

On Thursday, I will be at Guantánamo watching five men appear before a military commission. The men are accused of participating in the September 11 attacks, and the sentence could be death.

So you'd think the US would want to hold onto good nuclear physicists, right? Especially American citizens who have been active in the community as well as excellent scientists?

As a first year law student, I was introduced to Mildred Loving by way of Loving v. Virginia, a case that appeared in my Constitutional Law casebook. ...

What a horrific statement that some have opted to take their own lives rather than participate in practices that go against their principles.

In late 2006 Arizona passed Proposition 100, an unprecedented anti-immigrant law that forbids judges from considering bail for criminal defendants who are suspected of having "entered or remained in the United States illegally".

We've been at a critical juncture since September 11. How we respond to the atrocities thrust upon us after that terrible day says everything about who we are as Americans - what values we defend, how the world sees us, and how history will remember us.

The report presented by the U.S. this week at the U.N. hearing on racial discrimination in Geneva ignores the very existence of critical human rights problems in America.

The reputation of the U.S. has been tarnished throughout the world since the Bush administration replaced our military justice systems with a regime of military commissions.

The CIA's destruction of evidence suggests contempt not only for the court orders but for the foundational idea that intelligence agencies should be subject to democratic control.