Torturer Lawsuits: Some Good News (tags)
America
Supreme Court Approves Police State Harshness (tags)
tyranny
Bush can detain Americans and hold them indefinitely (tags)
"This decision," countered Jonathan L. Hafetz, counsel for al-Marri, means the president can pick up any person in the country–citizen or legal resident–and lock them up for years without the most basic safeguard in the Constitution, the right to a criminal trial." And in effect denies Habeas Corpus to all Americans.
The War on Free Expression (tags)
The struggle to save our First Amendment rights
Bush's Man in the Iron Mask (tags)
"A court of the United States has no jurisdiction . . . to enjoin the president in the performance of his official duties." Therefore, according to the Justice Department and the president, the separation of powers—at the core of the Constitution—has been suspended in the war on terrorism. Somebody ought to tell Congress.
Shrub In Trouble over CIA Leak (tags)
Seems like da shrub is in some VERY hot water right now....