Prison Reform
Prison Reform
Supreme Court Set to Hear Arguments on Rapid Deportation
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.
High Court Says Immigrants Can Be Detained Indefinitely
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.Court: Immigrant Children Facing Deportation Not Entitled to a Free Lawyer
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.
Inappropriate Government Watchlisting Threatens Innocent Lives
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.
The Post-Constitutional Era
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.Jon Stewart: President Obama Is Like ‘Barry Bombs’ of Drone Strikes
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."
Greenwald Responds to the DOJ’s Targeted Killing Leak
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.
Rendition Persists Despite Due Process Concerns
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.
Senators Band Together to End NDAA’s Indefinite Detention Provision
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."
The Polite Conference Rooms Where Liberties Are Saved and Lost
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.
