Law

Crony Constitutionalism Crony Constitutionalism

Democrats have a chance to stand up for competence, civil liberties and the integrity of the Supreme Court by challenging Harriet Miers's lack of credentials and blocking Bush from...

Oct 6, 2005 / The Editors

From Lynndie England to Shaquille O’Neal From Lynndie England to Shaquille O’Neal

Americans are becoming more hostile by the day to the war in Iraq, the nation is demoralized over official abandonment of the victims of the Gulf Coast storm, but the Democratic Pa...

Sep 29, 2005 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

Gitmo’s Hunger Strikers Gitmo’s Hunger Strikers

The US military is keeping the ongoing hunger strike and forced feedings of Guantanamo Bay under wraps. And an apathetic American media is showing no interest in exposing the situa...

Sep 29, 2005 / Clive Stafford Smith

St. Pat’s Four Not Guilty of Federal Charges St. Pat’s Four Not Guilty of Federal Charges

Four peace advocates were acquitted of federal conspiracy charges in connection with a 2003 protest of the Iraq War.

Sep 27, 2005 / Feature / Elizabeth Bauchner

Roberts’s Queer Reasoning on AIDS Roberts’s Queer Reasoning on AIDS

When John G. Roberts Jr. counseled President Ronald Reagan on AIDS policies, did he willfully perpetuate the myth that AIDS can be spread by casual contact?

Sep 26, 2005 / Feature / David W. Webber

The Roberts Converts The Roberts Converts

The political chess match between the White House and Senate Democrats over the future of the Supreme Court took on new complexity as three Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Commit...

Sep 23, 2005 / Bruce Shapiro

The FBI Fails (For Now) to Grab Subpoena Powers The FBI Fails (For Now) to Grab Subpoena Powers

The FBI--with apparent White House approval--continues to seek the authority to bypass the court system in pursuit of evidence against terror suspects.

Sep 22, 2005 / Feature / David Corn

Blackwater Down Blackwater Down

With military and law enforcement forces combing New Orleans in the wake of the storm, why did the federal government feel compelled to hire private security firms Blackwater USA a...

Sep 21, 2005 / Feature / Jeremy Scahill

Levee Town Levee Town

There are decades of memos from engineers and contractors setting forth budgets to build up the Gulf Coast's levees, but Bush wouldn't let them be.

Sep 15, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Alexander Cockburn

William Rehnquist William Rehnquist

William Rehnquist showed little regard for the social consequences that followed his unrelenting application of conservative legal theory.

Sep 8, 2005 / Bruce Shapiro

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