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Guantanamo: Government Says Six Years Is Not Long Enough To Prepare Evidence

Andy Worthington | Posted 10.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, US Supreme Court, UN Convention Against Torture, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Huzaifa Parhat, US District Court, Judge Thomas Hogan, Boumediene v. Bush, Habeas Corpus, Politics News
Andy Worthington

Imagine after six and a half years of this imprisonment -- in which, unlike convicted criminals on the US mainland, you have never been charged or tried, and have not been allowed a single visit from your loved ones.

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Guantanamo trials: another insignificant Afghan charged

Andy Worthington | Posted 10.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: US Supreme Court, Terrorism, Col. Morris Davis, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Salim Hamdan, The Guantanamo Files, Bostan Karim, Military Commissions, Obaidullah, Politics News
Andy Worthington

The Military Commissions at Guantánamo -- the trial system for "War on Terror" prisoners that was established in the wake of the 9/11 attacks -- are ...

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The Irony of Sarah Palin's Extreme Conservatism

Madeleine M. Kunin | Posted 10.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: US Supreme Court, John McCain, Antonin Scalia, Sarah Palin, Politics News
Madeleine M. Kunin

Red state feminism may be exciting, even interesting, but it does not speak to average women, whether they are stay-at-home moms or working-moms or neither.

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Larry Flynt And The Politics Of Hope

Jon Raymond | Posted 09.13.2008 | Home

Read More: Politics, Freedom of the Press, God, War Correspondents, Investigation, Movies, Larry Flynt, Generation Kill, U.S. Supreme Court, Clinton Impeachment, Home News
Jon Raymond

In this upside-down country of lying presidents and corrupt politicians, it seems almost natural that the one true champion of real American values is a world-class pornographer.

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America's Middle Class Needs Right to Bargain, Secure Contracts -- Like CEOs Have

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 09.11.2008 | Business

Read More: Collective Bargaining, Smithfield Foods, United Food and Commercial Workers, Wal-Mart, Employee Freedom Action Committee, Economy, Human Rights Watch, Employee Free Choice Act, Rick Berman, Middle Class, Free Trade, Usw, Medicaid, United Steelworkers, Walton Family, National Labor Relations Board, Global Corporations, Wall Street Journal, U.S. Supreme Court, Tobacco Lobbyist, Agriprocessors Inc. Immigration, Kosher, Minimum Wage, Union Busters, Lance Compa, Health Insurance, Meatpacking, Coalition for a Democratic Workplace, Union, Undocumented, Business News
Leo W. Gerard

When uninsured Wal-Mart workers get sick, American taxpayers foot the bill. They pay for coverage through Medicaid, the health insurance plan for the poor. That's what the Walton family, which owns Wal-Mart, banks on.

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Brother of US "Enemy Combatant" Released from Guantanamo

Andy Worthington | Posted 08.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: US Supreme Court, Al-Qaeda, Guantanamo Hunger Strike, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Jarallah Al-Marri, Ali Al-Marri, Afghanistan, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, Taliban, Qatar, US District Court, Politics News
Andy Worthington

What is distressing about this latest batch of releases is that two of the men -- those from Afghanistan and the UAE -- have left Guantanamo as unknown as when they arrived.

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Bush v. Gore Rears Its Head: The Triumph of Politics Over Law (Part II)

Shahid Buttar | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Judicial Activism, US Supreme Court, Abortion Rights, Guantanamo Detainees, Rule of Law, Supreme Court Guantanamo Detainees, Corporate Power, Race, Pollution, Civil Rights, Detainees, Corporate America, Voting Rights, Environment, Voter ID Laws, Conservative Supreme Court Justices, Supreme Court Bush vs. Gore, Bush Administration and Corporate Cronyism, Politics News
Shahid Buttar

Despite the changing winds of politics, the expansion of the voting franchise has been one of our most consistent trends since the birth of the Republic.

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Folly and Injustice: Salim Hamdan's Guantanamo Trial

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, US Supreme Court, Terrorism, Ali Soufan, Neal Katyal, Guantanamo Detainees, Judge James Robertson, Guantanamo, Prisoners of War, Salim Hamdan, Military Commissions Act, US District Court, Detainee Treatment Act, Military Commissions, Nuremberg Trials, Combatant Status Review Tribunals, Col. Morris Davis, Politics News
Andy Worthington

As with justice, logic is in short supply in the executive's approach to terror suspects, who have been deprived of the protections of the Geneva Conventions to make false confessions.

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Court Confirms President's Dictatorial Powers in Case of US "Enemy Combatant" Ali al-Marri

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: US Supreme Court, Us Constitution, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Enemy Combatants, Judge Diana Gribbon Motz, Ali Al-Marri, Terrorism, Jose Padilla, Taliban, Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge William B. Traxler, Yaser Hamdi, Al Qaeda, Politics News
Andy Worthington

Not content with endorsing the president's dictatorial right to imprison "enemy combatants", the judges ruled that the President did not even have to allege that an "enemy combatant" had ever raised arms against US forces.

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The Selfish Gene Part 2

Linda Bergthold | Posted 07.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: US Supreme Court, Hillary Clinton, Obama, Barack Obama, Selfish Genes, Backlash, John Kerry, Politics News
Linda Bergthold

In the past few days, Clinton supporters of various stripes have refused to donate to the Obama campaign (while they whine about Obama supporters not wanting to help retire the Clinton debt).

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Switching Sides On The Death Penalty

Diane Dimond | Posted 07.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Life Without Parole, Louisiana Child Rape Case, Child Rape, Rape of a Child Under the Age of 12, Crimes Against the State, Death Penalty, Hypocrite, U.S. Supreme Court, Supreme Court, Troy King Attorney General of Alabama, Politics News
Diane Dimond

There is an inner voice in my head that can't stop screaming! I've heard it since last week when the US Supreme Court declared the rape of a child under 12 should not be punished by death. That, a majority of the court ruled, is not a "proportional punishment."

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The Millionaire's Amendment

Jay Mandle | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, US Supreme Court, Alito, Wealth, The Millionaire Amendment, Samuel Alito, Candidates' Wealth, Politics News
Jay Mandle

Should the Mayor of New York or the Governor of New Jersey be able to overwhelm their opponents with vast personal fortunes? Justice Alito in effect says, "yes."

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Unhappy Birthday Pacifica

Leslie Harris | Posted 07.10.2008 | Media

Read More: Freedom of Speech, US Supreme Court, George Carlin, Technology, Fcc, Broadcast Indecency, Free Speech, Media News
Leslie Harris

Today, the media landscape barely resembles that of the late '70s, but the so-called "pervasiveness" concept arising from Pacifica -- the idea that broadcasting is an unstoppable "intruder" in the home -- lives on.

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Guantanamo as Alice in Wonderland

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, US Supreme Court, Lewis Carroll, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, US District Court, China, Uighurs, Parhat v. Bush, Detainee Treatment Act, Habeas Corpus, Combatant Status Review Tribunals, Huzaifa Parhat, Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham, The Guantanamo Files, Judge Merrick B. Garland, Politics News
Andy Worthington

The US administration's basis for holding prisoners without charge or trial in the "War on Terror" belongs in a fantasy world. At the heart of this fantasy world are the Combatant Status Review Tribunals.

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My Formal Statement On Today's Decision In The Heller DC Gun Case, Plus Remarks In Front Of The Supreme Court

Paul Helmke | Posted 07.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: US Supreme Court, District of Columbia v. Heller, Supreme Court, Gun Control, Heller vs. Dc, Heller, Guns, Heller Decision, District of Columbia v Heller, Politics News
Paul Helmke

The Heller decision will most likely embolden criminal defendants, and ideological extremists, to file new legal attacks on existing gun laws.

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Court rejects death penalty for raping children

AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court and Child Rape, Supreme Court and Exxon Valdez Case, US Supreme Court, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has struck down a Louisiana law that allows the execution of people convicted of a raping a child. In a 5-4 vote...

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Six Years Late, Court Throws Out Guantanamo Case

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: US Supreme Court, Combatant Status Review Tribunals, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Sabin Willett, China, US District Court, Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham, Boumediene v. Bush, Detainee Treatment Act, Habeas Corpus, Uighurs, Huzaifa Parhat, Politics News
Andy Worthington

Parhat v. Gates is another significant challenge to executive overreach. Parhat is one of 18 Uighur detainees who fled persecution in China and was arrested in Pakistan with no evidence against him.

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The Supreme Court's Guantanamo Ruling: What Does It Mean?

Andy Worthington | Posted 06.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: US Supreme Court, Habeas Corpus, Combatant Status Review Tribunals, Justice Anthony Kennedy, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Military Commissions Act, Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham, Detainee Treatment Act, Politics News
Andy Worthington

Those who cherish historical adherence to the rule of law were delighted to hear that the Supreme Court ruled that prisoners at Guantánamo now have the right to challenge the basis of their detention.

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Supreme Court Sides With Workers In Bias Cases

Reuters | James Vicini | Posted 06.04.2008 | Business

Read More: Supreme Court, US Supreme Court, Workplace Protections, Cracker Barrel Retaliation Suit, Supreme Court Bias Rulings, Anti-Bias Laws, Anti-Bias Rulings, Business News

Employees who complain of racial bias in the workplace and then face retaliation can sue under a post-Civil War-era law barring discrimination, the U....

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Bush v. Gore Rears Its Head: The Politicization of Voting Rights (Part I)

Shahid Buttar | Posted 07.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, US Supreme Court, Race in Politics, Latino Politics, Voting Rights, Rule of Law, DC Voting Rights, Voter ID Laws, Conservative Supreme Court Justices, Proportional Representation, Supreme Court Bush vs. Gore, Politics News
Shahid Buttar

Today, as the nation prepares to rid itself of the presidential yoke imposed seven years ago by the Supreme Court, the Court continues to engage in partisan judicial activism.

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Can a Civil Rights/Feminist Presidential Union Put John Edwards on the Supreme Court?

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 05.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, US Supreme Court, Civil Rights Movement, Democratic Nomination, Ku Klux Klan, Voting Rights, Antonin Scalia, John Edwards, Hillary Clinton Feminism, Feminism, Civil Rights, Politics News
Harvey Wasserman

The word is consensus. It is hard to achieve. But then it's even harder to beat.

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Supreme Court To Decide: Can Death Penalty Be Imposed On People Who Rape Children?

Washington Post | Robert Barnes | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: US Supreme Court, Death Penalty, Rape, Politics News

The Supreme Court said yesterday that it will decide whether the death penalty may be imposed on someone who rapes a child, reopening the issue of whi...

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Antiabortion Activists Pursuing Aggressive New Strategy

Los Angeles Times | Nicholas Riccardi | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: US Supreme Court, Abortion, Constitutional Amendment to Ban Gay Marriage, Abortion Activists, Roe v. Wade, Politics News

Antiabortion activists in several states are promoting constitutional amendments that would define life as beginning at conception, which could effect...

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