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5 Dec 2016, 1:50 pm by Chris Mirasola, Helen Klein Murillo
” At that point, the administration believes, “there will no longer be an ongoing armed conflict between the United States and those forces. [read post]
5 Dec 2016, 1:45 pm
When I joined the Marines 40 years ago, I took a vow to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. [read post]
5 Dec 2016, 12:45 pm
When the USDB [United States Disciplinary Barracks] placed me in solitary confinement as punishment for the attempted suicide, I tried it again because the feeling of hopelessness was so immense. [read post]
3 Dec 2016, 8:49 pm by Cymie Payne
Army Corps of Engineers should not grant an easement across federal lands; the United States failed to adequately consult and to prepare an adequate assessment of environmental and social impacts of the pipeline, required under both U.S. and international law; and the United States has failed to protect peaceful protestors. [read post]
2 Dec 2016, 7:11 am by Helen Klein Murillo
As historian Richard Kohn argues, civilian control of the military has emerged as a democratic norm in the United States: “Civilian control allows a nation to base its values and purposes, its institutions and practices, on the popular will rather than on the choices of military leaders, whose outlook by definition focuses on the need for internal order and external security. [read post]
1 Dec 2016, 1:01 pm by Zachary Burdette
As the siege on Islamic State forces in Sirte moves toward a successful conclusion, the United States is “watching very carefully” to track militants fleeing the Libyan city, Reuters writes. [read post]
1 Dec 2016, 7:27 am
That confrontation involves the government of the United States, the project developer, Energy Transfer Partners, and the Standing Rock Sioux, near whose lands the pipeline will pass. [read post]
29 Nov 2016, 12:45 pm
She was incarcerated in Colorado, while her husband, my grandfather, Kuichi Takei, fought in an artillery unit of the United States Army in Europe. [read post]
29 Nov 2016, 10:19 am by Eugene Volokh
Let’s begin with the constitutional text, here from section 1 of the 14th Amendment: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. [read post]
29 Nov 2016, 6:00 am by J. Dana Stuster
In a particularly telling exchange, Erdogan said that he was “not going to blame the United States” for the attempted coup, but that he also would not dispel rumors of U.S. involvement. [read post]
28 Nov 2016, 1:30 pm
Even though I had been a legal permanent resident of the United States for about 50 years and served in the U.S. [read post]
28 Nov 2016, 5:30 am by Daniel Byman
Part of the problem is that the United States often starts with damaged goods. [read post]
27 Nov 2016, 6:12 pm by Jon Katz
Archembault’s recent statement seeks President Obama’s intervention and says “We ask that the United States stop the pipeline and move it outside our treaty lands. [read post]
26 Nov 2016, 6:00 am by SHG
To add a level of infantile silliness to the mess, now colleges are claiming to be “sanctuary campuses,” as if they too get to pick and choose what laws of the United States apply to them. [read post]
22 Nov 2016, 2:45 pm
In 1988, President Reagan signed the 1988 Civil Liberties Act, a law whose purposes included acknowledging the “fundamental injustice” of the evacuation, relocation, and internment, to “apologize, on behalf of the people of the United States,” and to “inform the public about the internment . [read post]
22 Nov 2016, 10:46 am by Quinta Jurecic
Reuters tells us that the United States and the Philippines have agreed to curtail joint military exercises and U.S. troop deployments, though the United States will remain involved in humanitarian assistance, disaster relief, and counterterrorism efforts. [read post]
22 Nov 2016, 10:32 am by Robert Chesney
—In this section, the term “cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment” means the cruel, unusual, and inhumane treatment or punishment prohibited by the Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, as defined in the United States Reservations, Declarations and Understandings to the United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Forms of Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or… [read post]