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Bush reinstates death warrant
Miami Herald 08/17/06 Gov. Jeb Bush reinstated a death warrant Thursday for a condemned killer, despite a ruling this year from the U.S. Supreme Court that the inmate could challenge the state's method... ...
Preserve the War Crimes Act
Take Action On This Issue http://tinyurl.com/lyoe7 In June, the Supreme Court found that Common Article 3 of all for Geneva Conventions, outlining minimum standards for the treatment of detainees, applied... ...
US seeks to shield its war interrogators
The administration's two other responses to the Supreme Court's rejection of its military tribunal system have been to seek legislation blocking Guantanamo prisoners' right to sue to enforce their newly... ...
Dick Cheney Wants Access to Your E-mail: Stop the Abuse of Power!
It’s true. Dick Cheney and Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) have agreed that the government should be able to access Americans' conversations and emails without getting an individualized warrant. But that... ...
Memo to lawmakers: consider our values
Christian Science Monitor by Steven R. Ratner 08/08/06 The White House and Congress are embroiled in negotiations over legislation to address the Supreme Court's ruling in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, which was... ...
Justice Kennedy Questions American Democracy
The United States is not making the case for freedom, democracy and Western law to the rest of the world, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy said Saturday. "Make no mistake, there's a jury that's out.... ...
The Supreme Court has ruled that Geneva applies now it's time to talk about prosecutions for violating it
White House Behind Bars by Jennifer Van Bergen, TomPaine.com http://www.tompaine.com/a rticles/2006/08/03/white_h ouse_behind_bars.php ...
White House: Let's formalize the police state
Washington Post 08/0/06 A draft Bush administration plan for special military courts seeks to expand the reach and authority of such 'commissions' to include trials, for the first time, of people who... ...
Bush to Supreme Court: Forget You!
Only weeks after the Supreme Court declared illegal the Bush Administration’s military commissions — which were set up to try and convict detainees held indefinitely without basic due process protections... ...
Private I's?
Slate by Dahlia Lithwick 07/29/06) Priva cy is a fairly squishy legal concept -- springing, as it does, from somewhere deep within the greatest hits of the First, Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Ninth Amendments.... ...