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NOAA(H) and the Whales

Christopher Brauchli | Posted 11.20.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Noaa, Whales, U.S. Supreme Court, Sonar, California, Oceans, Navy, Animals, Green News
Christopher Brauchli

Pity the poor whale. All it wants is to peacefully swim in the ocean. Instead it finds itself caught up in a net of litigation and rule-making processes.

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How Guantanamo Can Be Closed: More Advice for Barack Obama

Andy Worthington | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Syria, Mohamed Jawad, US Supreme Court, Yemen, Tunisia, Terrorism, Judge Ricardo Urbina, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Salim Hamdan, Uzbekistan, Military Commissions Act, Omar Khadr, Uighurs, Barack Obama, Habeas Corpus, Military Commissions, Guantanamo Uighurs, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Enemy Combatants, Obama Guantanamo, Albania, Ali Hamza Al-Bahlul, Libya, Huzaifa Parhat, President Bush, The Guantanamo Files, Iraq, China, Closing Guantanamo, Politics News
Andy Worthington

Several prominent human rights and legal organizations launched a campaign in Berlin on November 10, aimed at persuading European countries to accept cleared prisoners from Guant�namo.

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Why Guantanamo Must Be Closed: Advice for Barack Obama

Andy Worthington | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, US Supreme Court, Kandahar, Abdul Hamid Al-Ghizzawi, War on Terror, Terrorism, Unitary Executive Theory, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Donald Rumsfeld, David Addington, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Guantanamo Uighurs, Abdul Razzaq Hekmati, Enemy Combatants, Bagram, Combatant Status Review Tribunals, New York Times, Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham, The Guantanamo Files, Closing Guantanamo, Politics News
Andy Worthington

In an attempt to separate fact from fiction, I'd like to offer my advice, based on the three years I have spent studying Guantanamo in unprecedented detail.

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Prop 8's Victory is a Big Loss for California Supreme Court

Peter Scheer | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: US Supreme Court, California Gay Marriage, Election Results, Gay Rights, California Supreme Court, Election, Politics News
Peter Scheer

Although its name did not even appear on the ballot, the California Supreme Court was perhaps the state's biggest loser in Tuesday's historic elections.

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Premature Emancipation? A Pragmatist's View of the Gay Marriage Struggle

Gary Cohan | Posted 11.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Lawrence vs. Texas, Mormon Church, Karl Rove, Culture Wars, Ballot Initiative, Theocracy, U.S. Constitution, 2008 Election, Homosexual Rights, Civil Rights, U.S. Supreme Court, California Gay Marriage, Red States, Gay Rights, Human Rights, Ban on Gay Marriages, American History, California Supreme Court, Women and Politics, Religion and Politics, Premature Ejaculation, Separate but Equal, Separation of Church and State, Poltical Strategy, Gay Issues, Gay Marriage, Albert Einstein, Prop 8, No on Prop 8, Church of the Latter Day Saints, Yes on Prop 8, Mormon Prop 8, Politics News
Gary Cohan

Civil rights are not won in the war zone of national elections or State referenda but, rather, in a series of small but important evolutionary steps.

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Here Come the Four Horses of the Apocalypse, FDA Lawyers

Doug Bremner | Posted 11.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Preemption, US Supreme Court, FDA Approvals, Fda, Healthcare, Politics News
Doug Bremner

This weekend was All Soul's Day, so I thought it appropriate that our own four horsemen of the apocalypse are ushering in our day of doom.

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The Supreme Court Is at Stake on November 4th

Menachem Rosensaft | Posted 10.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: US Supreme Court, John McCain, Ed Koch, Roe vs Wade, Constitutional Rights, Barack Obama, John McCain Supreme Court, Sarah Palin, Politics News
Menachem Rosensaft

If John McCain or, even worse, Sarah Palin, were to appoint the next several Supreme Court justices, their repressive, regressive world view would shape our nation's future for decades to come.

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Supreme Court Accidentally Protects Voters While Stripping Americans Of Their Rights

Cristóbal Joshua Alex | Posted 10.22.2008 | Home

Read More: Supreme Court, Rights, US Supreme Court, Ohio Republican Party, Civil Rights, Ohio, Help America Vote Act, Gonzaga v Doe, Democratic Party, Voting Rights, Republican Party, Voting, Private Right of Action, Jennifer Brunner, Hava, Alexander v Sandoval, Home News
Cristóbal Joshua Alex

Last week's Supreme Court decision in Brunner v. Ohio Republican Party is a disastrous ruling masquerading as a populist victory. Sure, the Court stop...

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Bush Administration Made Complete Immunity for Negligent Corporations a Top Priority

Les Weisbrod | Posted 10.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Toys, Diana Levine, Supreme Court, Recalls, Lead, Les Weisbrod, US Supreme Court, Regulatory Agencies, Cpsc, Drugs, Pet Food, Corporate Accountability, Wyeth, American Association for Justice, Bush Administration, Fda, Attorneys General, Trial Lawyer, Pharma, Politics News
Les Weisbrod

In the past three years federal agencies, have engaged in a campaign to hand corporations a 'get-out-of jail-free' pass when their products have harmed consumers.

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Supreme Court To Decide How Much and How Often Government Can Violate Your Civil Rights

Cristóbal Joshua Alex | Posted 10.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, 2008 DNC Convention, Bullet, First Amendment, Qualified Immunity, Protest, RNC Convention, Convention, Police Brutality, First Amendment Rights, Shopping Mall, Civil Rights, Republicans, U.S. Supreme Court, Politics News
Cristóbal Joshua Alex

The Supreme Court next week will hear a case that may allows police officers to do essentially anything unless courts have expressly told them that they couldn't.

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Why What Palin Doesn't Know About the Supreme Court Matters

Tanene Allison | Posted 10.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Lily Ledbetter, Lily Ledbetter Act, Palin, Sarah Palin, Roe vs Wade, Civil Rights, U.S. Supreme Court, Sarah Palin Reaction, Politics News
Tanene Allison

One of the highest offices in our country could be held by someone who doesn't even know anything the Supreme Court of the United States has ever done, other than Roe v. Wade.

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Guantanamo: Government Says Six Years Is Not Long Enough To Prepare Evidence

Andy Worthington | Posted 09.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, US Supreme Court, UN Convention Against Torture, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Huzaifa Parhat, US District Court, Judge Thomas Hogan, Boumediene v. Bush, Habeas Corpus, Politics News
Andy Worthington

Imagine after six and a half years of this imprisonment -- in which, unlike convicted criminals on the US mainland, you have never been charged or tried, and have not been allowed a single visit from your loved ones.

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Guantanamo trials: another insignificant Afghan charged

Andy Worthington | Posted 09.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: US Supreme Court, Terrorism, Col. Morris Davis, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Salim Hamdan, The Guantanamo Files, Bostan Karim, Military Commissions, Obaidullah, Politics News
Andy Worthington

The Military Commissions at Guantánamo -- the trial system for "War on Terror" prisoners that was established in the wake of the 9/11 attacks -- are ...

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The Irony of Sarah Palin's Extreme Conservatism

Madeleine M. Kunin | Posted 09.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: US Supreme Court, John McCain, Antonin Scalia, Sarah Palin, Politics News
Madeleine M. Kunin

Red state feminism may be exciting, even interesting, but it does not speak to average women, whether they are stay-at-home moms or working-moms or neither.

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Larry Flynt And The Politics Of Hope

Jon Raymond | Posted 08.13.2008 | Home

Read More: Politics, Freedom of the Press, God, War Correspondents, Investigation, Movies, Larry Flynt, Generation Kill, U.S. Supreme Court, Home News
Jon Raymond

In this upside-down country of lying presidents and corrupt politicians, it seems almost natural that the one true champion of real American values is a world-class pornographer.

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America's Middle Class Needs Right to Bargain, Secure Contracts -- Like CEOs Have

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 08.11.2008 | Business

Read More: Collective Bargaining, Smithfield Foods, United Food and Commercial Workers, Wal-Mart, Employee Freedom Action Committee, Economy, Human Rights Watch, Employee Free Choice Act, Rick Berman, Middle Class, Free Trade, Usw, Medicaid, United Steelworkers, Walton Family, National Labor Relations Board, Global Corporations, Wall Street Journal, U.S. Supreme Court, Tobacco Lobbyist, Agriprocessors Inc. Immigration, Kosher, Minimum Wage, Union Busters, Lance Compa, Health Insurance, Meatpacking, Coalition for a Democratic Workplace, Union, Undocumented, Business News
Leo W. Gerard

When uninsured Wal-Mart workers get sick, American taxpayers foot the bill. They pay for coverage through Medicaid, the health insurance plan for the poor. That's what the Walton family, which owns Wal-Mart, banks on.

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Brother of US "Enemy Combatant" Released from Guantanamo

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: US Supreme Court, Al-Qaeda, Guantanamo Hunger Strike, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Jarallah Al-Marri, Ali Al-Marri, Afghanistan, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, Taliban, Qatar, US District Court, Politics News
Andy Worthington

What is distressing about this latest batch of releases is that two of the men -- those from Afghanistan and the UAE -- have left Guantanamo as unknown as when they arrived.

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Bush v. Gore Rears Its Head: The Triumph of Politics Over Law (Part II)

Shahid Buttar | Posted 07.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Judicial Activism, US Supreme Court, Abortion Rights, Guantanamo Detainees, Rule of Law, Supreme Court Guantanamo Detainees, Corporate Power, Race, Pollution, Civil Rights, Detainees, Corporate America, Voting Rights, Environment, Voter ID Laws, Conservative Supreme Court Justices, Supreme Court Bush vs. Gore, Bush Administration and Corporate Cronyism, Politics News
Shahid Buttar

Despite the changing winds of politics, the expansion of the voting franchise has been one of our most consistent trends since the birth of the Republic.

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Folly and Injustice: Salim Hamdan's Guantanamo Trial

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, US Supreme Court, Terrorism, Ali Soufan, Neal Katyal, Guantanamo Detainees, Judge James Robertson, Guantanamo, Prisoners of War, Salim Hamdan, Military Commissions Act, US District Court, Detainee Treatment Act, Military Commissions, Nuremberg Trials, Combatant Status Review Tribunals, Col. Morris Davis, Politics News
Andy Worthington

As with justice, logic is in short supply in the executive's approach to terror suspects, who have been deprived of the protections of the Geneva Conventions to make false confessions.

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Court Confirms President's Dictatorial Powers in Case of US "Enemy Combatant" Ali al-Marri

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: US Supreme Court, Us Constitution, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Enemy Combatants, Judge Diana Gribbon Motz, Ali Al-Marri, Terrorism, Jose Padilla, Taliban, Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge William B. Traxler, Yaser Hamdi, Al Qaeda, Politics News
Andy Worthington

Not content with endorsing the president's dictatorial right to imprison "enemy combatants", the judges ruled that the President did not even have to allege that an "enemy combatant" had ever raised arms against US forces.

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The Selfish Gene Part 2

Linda Bergthold | Posted 07.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: US Supreme Court, Hillary Clinton, Obama, Barack Obama, Selfish Genes, Backlash, John Kerry, Politics News
Linda Bergthold

In the past few days, Clinton supporters of various stripes have refused to donate to the Obama campaign (while they whine about Obama supporters not wanting to help retire the Clinton debt).

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Switching Sides On The Death Penalty

Diane Dimond | Posted 07.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Life Without Parole, Louisiana Child Rape Case, Child Rape, Rape of a Child Under the Age of 12, Crimes Against the State, Death Penalty, Hypocrite, U.S. Supreme Court, Supreme Court, Troy King Attorney General of Alabama, Politics News
Diane Dimond

There is an inner voice in my head that can't stop screaming! I've heard it since last week when the US Supreme Court declared the rape of a child under 12 should not be punished by death. That, a majority of the court ruled, is not a "proportional punishment."

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The Millionaire's Amendment

Jay Mandle | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, US Supreme Court, Alito, Wealth, The Millionaire Amendment, Samuel Alito, Candidates' Wealth, Politics News
Jay Mandle

Should the Mayor of New York or the Governor of New Jersey be able to overwhelm their opponents with vast personal fortunes? Justice Alito in effect says, "yes."

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Unhappy Birthday Pacifica

Leslie Harris | Posted 07.02.2008 | Media

Read More: Freedom of Speech, US Supreme Court, George Carlin, Technology, Fcc, Broadcast Indecency, Free Speech, Media News
Leslie Harris

Today, the media landscape barely resembles that of the late '70s, but the so-called "pervasiveness" concept arising from Pacifica -- the idea that broadcasting is an unstoppable "intruder" in the home -- lives on.

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Guantanamo as Alice in Wonderland

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, US Supreme Court, Lewis Carroll, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, US District Court, China, Uighurs, Parhat v. Bush, Detainee Treatment Act, Habeas Corpus, Combatant Status Review Tribunals, Huzaifa Parhat, Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham, The Guantanamo Files, Judge Merrick B. Garland, Politics News
Andy Worthington

The US administration's basis for holding prisoners without charge or trial in the "War on Terror" belongs in a fantasy world. At the heart of this fantasy world are the Combatant Status Review Tribunals.

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