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Due Process

Putting an End to Sledgehammer Justice: Lawmakers Must Heed the Call for a Fair and Inclusive Path to Citizenship

Alisa Wellek | Posted 05.21.2013 | Politics
Alisa Wellek

The current immigration bill falls short of overhauling our broken immigration system. The heart of the bill is clearly the pathway to citizenship, but what's missing from the conversation is the number of individuals who will actually be barred from this path.

The Civilization Genome Project

Bruce Fein | Posted 05.21.2013 | World
Bruce Fein

A civilized society honors virtue, wisdom, self-restraint, and a search for truth without ulterior motives. It is not preoccupied or awed by technological wizardry, scientific discoveries, limitless wealth, athletic marvels, or weapons of mass destruction.

Historic Decision Recognizing Right to Counsel for Group of Immigration Detainees

Esha Bhandari | Posted 04.24.2013 | Politics
Esha Bhandari

The ruling will begin to correct an unjust system by providing essential protections for an extraordinarily vulnerable group -- immigrants with serious mental disabilities whom the government imprisons while their cases remain pending.

No More Enemy Combatants in the US: Obama Renews our Commitment to the Rule of Law

Kate Martin | Posted 04.22.2013 | Politics
Kate Martin

It seems that the current administration led by President Obama has learned important lessons about not over-reacting, about defeating terrorism through resilience and respect for civil liberties like the right to a trial.

The Billionaires' Big Plans for California Schools

John Thompson | Posted 03.26.2013 | Los Angeles
John Thompson

The heart of Vergara vs. California is the assertion that "California's schools hire and retain grossly ineffective teachers at alarming rates."

Bringing Gideon's "Noble Ideal" to the Immigration System

Carmen Iguina | Posted 03.22.2013 | Los Angeles
Carmen Iguina

Each day in this country, hundreds of immigrants appear in immigration court on their own and without legal counsel, even though the government is represented by a trained attorney and immigration law has been referred to as "more complex than the tax code."

How to Create an Immigration System That's Worthy of American Values

Ahilan Arulanantham | Posted 05.20.2013 | Politics
Ahilan Arulanantham

If we are to have an immigration system that's truly worthy of America's values, four critical reforms are in order, which I will be discussing at today's Senate hearing.

Attorney General Eric Holder: If the President Does It, It's Legal

John W. Whitehead | Posted 05.18.2013 | Politics
John W. Whitehead

It may be that the time has come to create a "non-political" and "independent" attorney general, one who would serve the interests of the public by upholding the rule of law rather than justifying the whims of the president.

The 3 Real Problems With Drone Strikes

Cenk Uygur | Posted 05.07.2013 | Politics
Cenk Uygur

It's frustrating to see how muddled the debate over drones has become. The problem isn't the tool; the problem is how we are using it.

Guaranteeing Due Process for Citizens and Lawful Residents

Sen. Dianne Feinstein | Posted 02.11.2013 | Politics
Sen. Dianne Feinstein

Courts have previously reached ambiguous and conflicting decisions regarding whether U.S. persons apprehended on American soil may be subject to indefinite detention under the laws of war. I am confident my amendment brings much-needed clarification to this area of the law.

Ending Indefinite Detention of Americans Who Aren't Being Detained Doesn't Solve the Problem

Daphne Eviatar | Posted 01.29.2013 | Politics
Daphne Eviatar

If due process is a principle worth defending for citizens and green-card holders, then it's a principle worth defending for everyone. Failure to do that has already led the U.S. government to jail potentially innocent men for a decade or more offshore.

The Process: A Presidential Imperative

Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 12.12.2012 | Politics
Mark Goulston, M.D.

JFK to Eisenhower: What went wrong with the Bay of Pigs? Eisenhower: You didn't have a process. If the above is true (and if someone has a source pl...

The Justice System's Imprisonment of Innocent Citizens

Anthony Gregory | Posted 12.03.2012 | Crime
Anthony Gregory

It is almost a certainty that thousands of innocent Americans are behind bars, potentially subject to brutal conditions, violence, and very often rape. But this reality poses a major inconvenience for the dominant forms of modern political ideology.

What Students Are Doing for Trayvon This Easter Weekend

Vanessa Baden | Posted 06.06.2012 | Miami
Vanessa Baden

Students from across the state of Florida and the nation have gathered to trek 40 miles from Daytona to Sanford to call for justice. It is time for the justice system to show itself impartial and to allow the process to begin.

Justice for George Zimmerman

Wyatt Troia | Posted 06.05.2012 | College
Wyatt Troia

Forgotten in the rush to punish George Zimmerman are the components of true justice: a presumption of innocence, dispassionate evaluation of the evidence, due process and color-blindness.

Texas Court of Inquiry Into Prosecutorial Misconduct Is Big News

Andrea Lyon | Posted 04.22.2012 | Crime
Andrea Lyon

A special investigation has been convened to decide whether a former prosecutor, who is now a judge, hid evidence in a trial in which a man was wrongly convicted of his wife's murder and sent to prison for almost 25 years.

The Right to Reopen an Adverse Decision From Abroad

Aggie R. Hoffman | Posted 04.04.2012 | Latino Voices
Aggie R. Hoffman

Our highest law is the U.S. Constitution, defining rights of citizens, of those who are present within our jurisdiction, and controlling issues of national importance such as the making of treaties, protection of our borders, and immigration.

Syracuse Expels Education Student for Criticizing Racial Comment on Facebook, Then Folds Under Public Scrutiny

Adam Kissel | Posted 03.20.2012 | College
Adam Kissel

It was barely a year ago that Syracuse University was at the top of this list of the "12 Worst Colleges for Free Speech" here at the Huffington Post. ...

The Latest Skirmish in Afghanistan: Hate to Say We Told You So

Daphne Eviatar | Posted 03.09.2012 | Politics
Daphne Eviatar

The U.S. government can't credibly insist that the Afghans improve their justice system and treatment of detainees if the U.S. military doesn't first get its own detention house in order.

How Immigration Courts Contaminate American Justice

Bennett L. Gershman | Posted 03.07.2012 | Politics
Bennett L. Gershman

Is there a path to reforming the immigration justice system to ensure fairness? Given the deportation crackdowns and implementation of the Obama administration's Secure Communities initiative, it's unclear whether additional resources will make any significant improvement.

What Do Joe Paterno, Herman Cain and Dominique Strauss-Kahn Have in Common?

Judge H. Lee Sarokin | Posted 02.18.2012 | Crime
Judge H. Lee Sarokin

Each one of these men has suffered severe damage to their lives and reputations without ever having been found guilty of anything. Shouldn't the punishment follow a finding of guilt -- rather than precede it?

Michael McAuliff

Senate Votes To Let Military Detain Americans Indefinitely, White House Threatens Veto

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 11.30.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The Senate voted Tuesday to keep a controversial provision to let the military detain terrorism suspects on U.S. soil and hold them inde...

Mike Sacks

VIDEO: Supreme Court Will Ponder Bad Lawyers, Broken Elbows And Eyewitness IDs

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 12.28.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court returns to the bench on Monday for another two weeks of oral arguments. Next week's docket is stacked with criminal ca...

Andrea Stone

Same-Sex Married Troops Ready To Sue Over Military Benefits

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 12.16.2011 | Politics

LAS VEGAS -- The gay advocacy group that successfully lobbied to repeal the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy plans to file a lawsuit in feder...

A Pyrrhic Victory

Bruce Fein | Posted 11.03.2011 | Politics
Bruce Fein

The United States' extra-judicial killing of United States citizen Anwar al-Awlaki off the battlefield and unengaged in active hostilities against the...