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February 12, 2008

Blacklisting and Unaccountable Executive Power
By Wendy Kaminer
By Wendy Kaminer

One of the most expansive, flexible, and unreviewable appropriations of presidential power in the war on terror is also one of most obscure. It’s a federal blacklisting scheme that gives the executive branch the power to designate virtually anyone a suspected terrorist. As a recent report from the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights stresses::

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blacklisting, due process, terrorism

February 08, 2008

The Lawyers and the Torture Debate: Don't kill the lawyers, just disbar them!
By Harvey Silverglate

By Harvey Silverglate
So the truth about waterboarding finally comes out, thanks in no small part to the Boston Globe's Charlie Savage among the most astute journalists to chronicle the sins of omission and commission made by the Bush administration and its lawyers over the last seven years. In this morning's Globe, Savage reports that Attorney General Michael Mukasey has refused to investigate the CIA’s torture practices, in part because investigating those who relied on the advice of legal counsel would undermine the credibility of the government’s lawyers.

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due process, politics, war crimes

November 08, 2007

Developing Story at Brandeis
By Wendy Kaminer
Free thought, free speech, and common sense are once again under attack at Brandeis, according to the Brandeis Hoot. Professor Donald Hindley has been accused of making a racist remark in class and ordered to submit to an anti-discrimination training course and the presence of a monitor in his class. In finding Hindley guilty and imposing punishment, the administration reportedly “acted on a single complaint and the results of a secret investigation that it undertook without Hindley’s knowledge.” We’ll be following the story.

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due process, free speech, higher education

November 02, 2007

Torture, by any other name, smelleth as foul
By Harvey Silverglate

By Harvey Silverglate
The media has been abuzz today with the Senate Judiciary Committee’s discomfort with Attorney General nominee Michael Mukasey – and his refusal to opine whether waterboarding (the interrogation technique widely reported as used by CIA interrogators to wring information out of suspected terrorists) is illegal or unconstitutional.

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due process, Supreme Court, terrorism

October 11, 2007

Suspend First, Ask Questions later
By Wendy Kaminer
By Wendy Kaminer

Hamline University prides itself on its commitment to diversity. Its website boasts that “Hamline’s five schools have more than 4,500 students, and each one of these students is different …Hamline isn’t a place where you ‘fit in,’ conforming to the Hamline mold. Rather, Hamline ‘fits in’ you, welcoming your unique contributions and valuing who you are.

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due process, education, free speech

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Blacklisting and Unaccountable Executive Power
Published 2/12/2008 by Wendy Kaminer
By Wendy Kaminer One of the most expansive, flexible, and unreviewable appropriations of presidential power in the war on terror is also one...

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The Lawyers and the Torture Debate: Don't kill the lawyers, just disbar them!
Published 2/8/2008 by Harvey Silverglate
By Harvey Silverglate So the truth about waterboarding finally comes out, thanks in no small part to the Boston Globe's Charlie Savage among the...

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