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The Cheney Fallacy »
Posted by: tehranchik 7 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
During the campaign former professor Obama spoke eloquently about the importance of habeas corpus review of executive detentions of enemy soldiers. Habeas corpus is "the ...
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Why is the Obama administration clinging to an indefensible state-secrets doctrine? »
Posted by: berkeley 10 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
The Obama administration is walking a tightrope. It's trying to achieve a clean break from the worst of the Bush administration's legal excesses ...
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What's the president's rationale for keeping so many legal skeletons in the closet? -- Dahlia Lithwick »
Posted by: berkeley 9 months, 4 weeks ago in Political News
Having inherited an undifferentiated mass of legal "war on terror" doctrine from the Bush administration's constitutional chop shop, President Obama finds himself in the ...
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State Secrets Critics Slam New Obama Policy »
Posted by: tehranchik 3 months, 1 week ago in Political News
The state secrets privilege allows the government to conceal certain evidence in a court case that, if disclosed, would endanger national security by revealing “state ...
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Contortions to Defend Obama's Use of "State Secrets" »
Posted by: hyperbola 10 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
The Obama administration failed miserably the first test of its commitment to ditching the extravagant legal claims used by the Bush administration to try to ...
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