due process

Cash Bail Violates Due Process and Needs to End

Sonali Kolhatkar / IMI Mar 14, 2024 Poor people await trial behind bars while the rich go free. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Supreme Court Set to Hear Arguments on Rapid Deportation

MARK SHERMAN / The Associated Press Feb 29, 2020 The Trump administration seeks a ruling it could potentially use to deport millions of people, even those arrested far from the border. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

High Court Says Immigrants Can Be Detained Indefinitely

Jake Johnson / Common Dreams Feb 27, 2018 The 5-3 Supreme Court ruling tosses out a 2015 lower court decision that entitled immigrant detainees to a bond hearing every six months. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Court: Immigrant Children Facing Deportation Not Entitled to a Free Lawyer

SUDHIN THANAWALA / The Associated Press Jan 29, 2018 A representative of the ACLU of Southern California takes issue with the ruling, saying an immigration judge is not an adequate substitute for a lawyer. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Inappropriate Government Watchlisting Threatens Innocent Lives

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Sep 1, 2014 "A single, uncorroborated source of information -- including a Facebook or Twitter post" -- is enough to put innocent foreigners and Americans on a watchlist of "known" and "suspected" terrorists shared with foreign and domestic agencies as well as private contractors, ACLU legislative counsel Arjun Sethi writes at The Guardian on Saturday. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

The Post-Constitutional Era

Chris Hedges / Truthdig May 5, 2014 The Supreme Court’s refusal to hear our challenge to the law that lets the military indefinitely imprison U.S. citizens is another example of the transformation of the judiciary into an enemy of the Constitution. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Jon Stewart: President Obama Is Like ‘Barry Bombs’ of Drone Strikes

Staff / Truthdig Feb 20, 2014 The "Daily Show" host explains how the true difference between administrations is "not necessarily what they do but what they say to get to do it." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Greenwald Responds to the DOJ’s Targeted Killing Leak

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Feb 6, 2013 The Department of Justice memo released by NBC News on Monday, which asserts the right of U.S. officials to kill American citizens without due process, “equates government accusations with guilt,” writes Glenn Greenwald in The Guardian. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Rendition Persists Despite Due Process Concerns

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jan 2, 2013 The Obama administration continues to embrace rendition -- “the [controversial] practice of holding and interrogating terrorism suspects in other countries without due process” -- as it remains at odds with Congress over how to apprehend and try such suspects overseas, The Washington Post reports. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Senators Band Together to End NDAA’s Indefinite Detention Provision

Tracy Bloom / Truthdig Nov 30, 2012 "The federal government experimented with indefinite detention of United States citizens during World War II, a mistake we now recognize as a betrayal of our core values," Sen. Dianne Feinstein said Wednesday as she introduced an amendment to end the provision. "Let's not repeat it." Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

The Polite Conference Rooms Where Liberties Are Saved and Lost

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Mar 26, 2012 I spent four hours in a third-floor conference room at 86 Chambers St. in Manhattan on Friday as I underwent a government deposition. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

Holder: U.S. Can Kill Citizens in Overseas Terror Groups

Staff / Truthdig Mar 6, 2012 According to Attorney General Eric Holder, it is within the government's rights to kill American citizens implicated in anti-U.S. terrorist plots hatched abroad. Along with general human rights concerns, this raises some issues vis-à-vis the Constitution and the Fifth Amendment. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )