Source: counterpunch.com
Every law student promptly learns the national ideal that our country is governed by the rule of law, not the rule of men. Today, the rule of law is under attack. Such activities have become a big business and, not surprisingly, they have involved big business.
Source: The Huffington Post
It is time to take to the streets.
Source: Yahoo! News
The Iraqi government announced on Wednesday that it has decided to formally revoke the immunity from prosecution granted to private security companies operating in the war-ravaged country.
Source: The New York Times
AT his confirmation hearings last week, Michael B. Mukasey, President Bush's nominee for attorney general, was asked whether the president is required to obey federal statutes.
Source: PopulistAmerica.com
"In a December 2005 essay for FindLaw's Writ, "Warrantless Wiretapping: Why It Seriously Imperils The Separation Of Powers", Edward Lazarus -- a former federal prosecutor and current law professor in Los Angeles -- wrote that warrantless wiretapping is a major threat to the Const …
Source: The New York Times
The Justice Department is a disaster zone. It should be the embodiment of America's commitment to the rule of law, but it has been contaminated by partisan politics.
Source: t r u t h o u t
The departure of Alberto Gonzales from the Attorney General's Office brings America to a place of definitions, and hanging in the balance is the very idea of the nation itself.
Source: Christian Science Monitor
The Monitor has it right: this is not just about Padilla, but about the entire attempt by the Bush Administration to redefine the US approach to the rule of law during wartime.
Source: Foreign Affairs
Excerpt re: the concept of "sustained good governance": Too much emphasis has been placed on brokering negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians — negotiations that bring up the same issues again and again.
Source: smirkingchimp.com
If the past is prologue, then the present may be prescient. Each day, many of us awaken to a queasy feeling of unrest, knowing that the rule of law is under assault. The Constitution is in jeopardy and our unassailable rights to an egalitarian society are quickly being abolished.
Source: globalization.icaap.org
An fascinating in-depth article that would have even more supporting facts if it were written today rather than in 2005.
Source: The New York Times
President Bush is notorious for issuing statements taking exception to hundreds of bills as he signs them. This week, we learned that in a shocking number of cases, the Bush administration has refused to enact those laws.
Source: odili.net
The on-going interrogation of former state governors by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) may have started yielding dividends.
Source: Yahoo! News
The Bush administration cannot legally detain a U.S. resident it suspects of being an al-Qaida sleeper agent without charging him, a divided federal appeals court ruled Monday.
Source: Raw Story
Senior Bush administration officials said Tuesday that they believe the president still has the constitutional authority to continue his domestic wiretapping program without first seeking court approval.
Source: OpEdNews.Com Progressive
Our ability to to create and implement successful strategic policies that address urgent issues such as institutionalized violence and terror, nuclear proliferation, and global climate change is on the line. We are at risk of losing respect and goodwill.
Source: Salon.com
The Wall St Journal online has today published a lengthy and truly astonishing article by Harvard Government Professor Harvey Mansfield, which expressly argues that the power of the President is greater than "the rule of law."
Source: Christian Science Monitor
Reaction in Germany was hardly neutral when a prosecutor in Munich indicted 13 CIA officials last week for kidnapping a German of Lebanese descent and interrogating him in Afghanistan before apparently realizing they had the wrong man. Germans solidly backed the prosecutor.
Source: Politico
The House Judiciary Committee has launched an investigation challenging repeated assertions by President Bush that he need not enforce aspects of laws he deems unconstitutional.
Source: International Herald Tribune
WASHINGTON: The Defense Department's rules for upcoming detainee trials would allow terrorism suspects to be convicted and perhaps executed using hearsay evidence and some coerced testimony.
Source: The New York Times
The Bush administration, in what appears to be a concession to its critics, said today it will allow an independent court to monitor its warrantless electronic-eavesdropping program.
Source: The Seattle Times
Americans are tough on presidents and we most assuredly have been tough on George Bush. Bush exaggerated what he could do in the White House, yet he also came to the job at a time of enormous partisan and cultural polarization in this country.
Source: The New York Times
I have been greatly saddened to hear that the Congress of the United States, a country I deeply admire, is considering new laws that would deny prisoners at Guantánamo Bay the right to challenge their detentions in federal court.
Source: Yahoo! News
The use of such prisons is not compatible with my understanding of the rule of law," Merkel said in Berlin.
Source: The New York Times
Many of the harsh interrogation techniques repudiated by the Pentagon on Wednesday as ineffective, unnecessary, inhumane and illegal would be made lawful by legislation put forward the same day by the Bush administration. And the courts would be forbidden from intervening.