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The Indefinite Detention of Citizens and Non-Citizens Under the NDAA
Last week was the tenth anniversary of the military prison at Guantanamo, with newspapers dutifully marking the occasion with “Guantanamo at Ten” columns, op-eds and blog posts. A handful of papers,...
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Repealing the NDAA
I am of two minds about the Due Process Guarantee Act of 2011, a bill drafted in response to the detention provisions of the recently-enacted National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). While I...
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Chipping Away at the NDAA
Two positive steps have just been taken toward limiting the scope of the detention provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the recently-passed federal statute on the military...
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The Hybrid Rules of Drone Warfare
“I don’t think there’s any question but that we are at war,” said then-Attorney-General designate Eric Holder at his confirmation hearing in January 2009, agreeing with Senator Lindsey Graham that the...
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The Trial of the Century?
With last week’s announcement that charges against Khalid Shaikh Mohammad and his four co-defendants had been authorized, the on-again, off-again military commission proceedings in the 9/11 case have...
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Ending Prison Rape
Progress toward ending prison rape has been excruciatingly slow. Over 30 years ago, activist Russell Smith founded People Organized to Stop Rape of Imprisoned Persons, which later, under the...
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A Thousand Years of Solitude
Imagine spending a month alone in a windowless cell the size of a small bathroom. Now multiply that by 100, and you can begin to understand the average period of solitary confinement endured by...
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Journalists, Protesters, and Other Terrorist Threats
The counterterrorism measures that have been adopted in the decade since the September 11 terrorist attacks are supposed to keep us safe. To protect the public from violent extremists who are willing...
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A Legal Challenge to Targeted Killings
Does the Executive Branch—including, specifically, the Pentagon and the CIA—possess unreviewable power under the US Constitution to carry out targeted killings of Americans overseas? A lawsuit filed...
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Paul Ryan and Human Rights
Has an election ever been won or lost based on a vice-presidential candidate’s positions on human rights issues? None that I can think of. But a VP’s views can have enormous human rights impact;...
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