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Appeals Courts Pushed to Right by Bush Choices
Charlie Savage, The New York Times: "Mr. Bush had appointed six of the seven judges in the conservative majority. His administration has transformed the nation's federal appeals courts, advancing a conservative... ...
Generals: Review Bush's Detention Authority
msnbc.msn.com — Former generals and U.S. Justice Department officials filed briefs urging the U.S. Supreme Court to review the Bush administration's authority to indefinitely detain the only suspected... ...
Al-Marri And The Power to Imprison U.S. Citizens Without Charges
By Glenn Greenwald Of all the constitutionally threatening and extremist powers the Bush administration has asserted over the last seven years, the most radical -- and the most dangerous -- has been... ...
Judges Cite Need for Reliable Evidence to Hold Detainees
Del Quentin Wilber and Josh White, of The Washington Post: "In reversing a military tribunal's determination that a Chinese detainee was an 'enemy combatant,' a federal appeals court criticized the government's... ...
The Legacy of Bush
The Bush Legacy Conservative Courts Likely to Be Bush Legacy David G. Savage, of The Los Angeles Times, writes, "After nearly seven years in the White House, President Bush has named 294 judges to the... ...
Ohio Elections Official Calls Machines Flawed
All five voting systems used in Ohio, a state whose electoral votes narrowly swung two elections toward President Bush, have critical flaws that could undermine the integrity of the 2008 general election,... ...
Cellphone Warrants Granted Without Probable Cause
Ellen Nakashima reports in the Washington Post that "federal officials are routinely asking courts to order cellphone companies to furnish real-time tracking data. In some cases, judges have granted the... ...
Just Say No to Judge Southwick
Alberto Gonzales is finally gone, but George Bush is still trying to pack the Federal courts with lifetime appointments for far-right ideologues. Last year the Senate confirmed Samuel Alito to the Supreme... ...
US Defends NSA Spying Before Three Skeptical Judges
Adam Liptak, of The New York Times, reports, "Three federal appeals court judges hearing challenges to the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs appeared skeptical of and sometimes hostile to... ...
Secret call log at heart of wiretap challenge
In open court and legal filings it's referred to simply as "the Document." Federal officials claim its contents are so sensitive to national security that it is stored in a bombproof safe in Washington... ...