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16 Feb 2023, 10:48 am
On his 44th birthday, the accused broke out of the correctional centre by creating a fake medical emergency to distract the guards. [read post]
16 Feb 2023, 5:55 am
Instead of finding legally sound solutions to their entrenched and protracted arbitrary deprivation of liberty in inhumane conditions, including repatriations to their countries of origin for those who should receive a fair trial for offenses committed, the practice of arbitrary detention is becoming entrenched. [read post]
15 Feb 2023, 6:15 am
Editor's note: listen to a conversation with the author and Lawfare Senior Editor Quinta Jurecic on the Lawfare Podcast here. [read post]
13 Feb 2023, 4:00 am
.* * *Now onto the mischief:(1) The false belief that the U.S. was founded on a genuine commitment to human equality or, for that matter, any other noble ideal that can be located in the founding documents--such as liberty or democracy--is harmful in at least two respects.First, it can lead to a kind of complacency born of the view that the Constitution is perfect and thus should not be amended--ever. [read post]
9 Feb 2023, 6:08 am
Although there are variations in the particular rights emphasized and the constitutional structures that provide for democratic governance generally, University of Nottingham Professor Todd Landman rightly noted that “democracy and human rights are grounded in the shared principles of accountability, individual liberty, integrity, fair and equal representation, inclusion and participation, and non-violent solutions to conflict. [read post]
8 Feb 2023, 8:16 pm
None of Plaintiffs' claims approach a violation of the natural principles guarded in the Reconstruction Amendments, nor could the nature of their work approach the atrocities the Thirteenth Amendment protects against. [read post]
3 Feb 2023, 12:40 pm
At the same time, “emergencies”—both real and manufactured —have served as the backdrop for serious abuses of power, often at the expense of civil rights and liberties. [read post]
23 Jan 2023, 9:01 pm
Her effort seems like a rear-guard action at a time when conservative politicians across the country now are calling for an end to the death penalty.More about that in a minute.Let‘s start by asking how we have gotten to a point of dramatic change in the way the American people and many public officials think about capital punishment.Evidence of that change is abundant.As the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) notes in its 2022 year-end report, death sentences across the country… [read post]
23 Jan 2023, 7:30 am
” Specifically, the Declaration affirmed the individual, natural, and inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. [read post]
13 Jan 2023, 6:11 am
But since then, like a lot of people in the last year, I let my guard down. [read post]
10 Jan 2023, 8:14 am
Rather than rubber-stamping this improper invitation to detain, judges must be on guard, stand as the bulwark against illegal detention, and deny such requests…. [read post]
6 Jan 2023, 2:37 pm
“The freedom to change jobs is core to economic liberty and to a competitive, thriving economy,” said Chair Lina M. [read post]
5 Jan 2023, 12:43 pm
“The freedom to change jobs is core to economic liberty and to a competitive, thriving economy,” said Chair Lina M. [read post]
3 Jan 2023, 6:30 am
But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security. [read post]
30 Dec 2022, 10:32 am
What is Homicide? [read post]
23 Dec 2022, 3:14 am
The guards had identified her using a facial recognition system. [read post]
29 Nov 2022, 9:30 pm
Drawing on Framing Era history, seminal Supreme Court decisions, and the global embrace of the values underlying the Ex Post Facto Clause, Logan provides a blueprint for how the Clause can play a reinvigorated and more robust role in guarding against the penal populism besetting modern American legislatures--Dan Ernst [read post]
23 Nov 2022, 10:36 am
This overbroad and elastic mandate was always a danger to civil liberties. [read post]
17 Nov 2022, 4:00 am
On the other hand, I am quite taken with Professor Dan Farber’s appealing suggestion that the major questions doctrine should be viewed not as doing the work of the nondelegation doctrine, but as guarding against the potential that presidents might exercise powers not actually sanctioned in law. [read post]
16 Nov 2022, 7:00 am
Trump’s Plans to Politicize the Military Trump has laid out plans to use the U.S. military in ways that would upend civil-military relations and threaten American civil liberties. [read post]
