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Stop the Specter bill and save the Fourth Amendment!
July 19, 2006 http://www.bordc.org/new sletter/bordc-act-alert719 .php The President's warrantless wiretapping program violates the Fourth Amendment prohibition against wiretapping Americans without... ...
Why the Court Said No
"The fact that the Court decided the case at all in the face of Congress's efforts to strip the Court of jurisdiction is remarkable in itself. That the Court then broke away from its history of judicial... ...
Rechecking the Balance of Powers
Glenn Greenwald writes, "The US Supreme Court's June 29 ruling in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld - that the Bush administration's military tribunals violated federal law and the Geneva Conventions - resoundingly rejected... ...
A Specter is haunting America
Reason by Jacob Sullum 07/19/06 The 'findings' that precede Arlen Specter's National Security Surveillance Act are full of tough-sounding rhetoric about the limits of executive power, including former... ...
Worse Than the Patriot Act
You may have read headlines calling the Cheney-Specter bill on surveillance oversight a "compromise." But make no mistake, this deal is nothing short of a complete capitulation to the Bush administration.... ...
The Real Agenda
According to the New York Times it is only now, nearly five years after Sept. 11, that the full picture of the Bush administration’s response to the terror attacks is becoming clear. Much of it, we can... ...
Minimum standards
Truthout by William Rivers Pitt 07/12/06 BBC News reported it this way: 'All US military detainees, including those at Guantanamo Bay, are to be treated in line with the minimum standards of the Geneva... ...
Signs of Life in Congress
The New York Times says Congress, which is supposed to push back against executive attempts to amass overweening power, has hardly played its proper role when it comes to George W. Bush. In the past, when... ...
Supreme Court Condemns Abuse of Power with Guantanamo Decision
The Bush administration has been pushing the legal envelope, testing and frequently exceeding the law's limits with its claims of executive power. But last week, as the Supreme Court ended its 2005 term,... ...
A July Fourth declaration
The Nation by Katrina vanden Heuvel 07/03/06 It is clear that the American Constitution is in grave danger. It is time to make the defense of the Constitution a national theme for all candidates in... ...