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1 May 2009, 8:21 am
This week, a surgeon at the Cervantes blog (the Surgeon and the Torture Memos) reflects upon the medical training that "habituated" him to cutting through human flesh with a knife ("the scalpel [now] merely an extension of my fingers") while he contemplates the role physicians played in authorizing torture at Guantanamo and further flung sites of extraordinary rendition. [read post]
9 Sep 2011, 1:21 pm
But also in part because it seemed unimaginable that this extraordinary grant of executive power could possibly be abused. [read post]
12 Oct 2010, 6:36 am
Are you guys planning some sort of extraordinary rendition? [read post]
7 Oct 2010, 7:28 am
On Tuesday evening, Michael Farrell, senior solicitor with FLAC and member of the Irish Human Rights Commission, gave the annual Stephen Livingstone Lecture. [read post]
16 Jul 2011, 10:00 pm
This was a claim against the Intelligence Services and their sponsoring departments, alleging complicity in the claimants’ extraordinary rendition, false imprisonment, torture and other ill-treatment. [read post]
26 Aug 2011, 1:16 pm
The Joint Committee on Taxation has estimated that another rendition of the 2004 repatriation provision (part of the cornucopia of corporate tax benefits passed by the Bush Administration and responsible for lowering even further the tax-haven effective tax rates actually paid by US corporations) will cost about $80 billion over the ten years from 2011 to 2021. [read post]
8 Mar 2007, 1:25 pm
The idea here is not to offer any sort of comprehensive discussion, but merely an effort to catalogue - an exercise in charting the forest, as it were.Here's the Times' list: (1) restore habeas corpus, (2) stop illegal spying, really, (3) close the CIA prisons, (4) account for "ghost prisoners," (5) ban extraordinary rendition, (6) tighten the definition of "illegal enemy combatant," (7) screen prisoners fairly and effectively, (8) ban tainted… [read post]
29 Jan 2009, 9:38 am
Richard Seymour (i.e. [read post]
28 Mar 2007, 6:22 pm
For instance, to a decision to introduce a system of torture-by-proxy through extraordinary rendition. [read post]
20 Dec 2011, 8:45 am
What accounts for this extraordinary growth? [read post]
14 Jul 2008, 5:04 pm
Citing the state secrets privilege, a Fourth Circuit panel upheld the outright dismissal of the suit, finding that litigating the case would require disclosure of details about the government's "extraordinary rendition" program. [read post]
21 Jun 2011, 10:03 am
Guantanamo remains open. [read post]
November Reasonably Suspicious Podcast: Let me be your lawyer dog, or I won't be your man at all ...
12 Nov 2017, 5:51 am
Check out the November edition of Just Liberty's Reasonably Suspicious podcast, covering Texas criminal justice policy and politics. [read post]
8 Jul 2020, 5:09 am
On June 16, many people in the United States woke up to the news that Indian and Chinese troops had clashed along their contested border in the Galwan Valley, a remote region that sits some 3,000 meters above sea level and frequently experiences sub-zero temperatures. [read post]
12 May 2021, 8:35 am
., as well as systematic torture, drone strikes, extraordinary renditions, and extralegal killings abroad. [read post]
4 Apr 2019, 12:46 pm
Even though the commission had already ruled against the objection, Nevin stated he intended to pursue an extraordinary remedy from the CMCR or the D.C. [read post]
7 Feb 2019, 9:17 am
Long before the elections of 2016, the American Republic had been moving toward more formal and open hostilities in the cultural civil war, one with social, economic, cultural and political consequences, that was one of the great consequences of the immediate post 1945 period. [read post]
18 Jul 2020, 4:57 pm
At the same time, the law allows foreigners to be expelled if China merely suspects them of violating the law, potentially making it harder for journalists, human rights organizations, and other outside groups to hold the PRC accountable for its treatment of the people of Hong Kong.I therefore determine that the situation with respect to Hong Kong, including recent actions taken by the PRC to fundamentally undermine Hong Kong’s autonomy, constitutes an unusual and extraordinary… [read post]
23 Aug 2011, 8:58 am
Barack Obama is no George W. [read post]
26 Oct 2014, 8:23 pm
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2014) Since 2010, I have been posting on the development of a new course I have been developing for our first year law school students, "Elements of Law. [read post]
