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Surveillance: Are Obama's Proposed Reforms Too Vague? 12 Aug 2013 | 02:52 pm
Lawfare's Robert Chesney does a brilliant job of extracting the specific policy points from the speech on surveillance that President Obama delivered last week. What the president suggests is promisin...
What Juror B37 and Walter Quijano Have in Common 1 Aug 2013 | 07:17 pm
The New York Times published an editorial this morning that calls on the State of Texas to grant Duane Buck a new sentencing hearing. Buck was one of six defendants sentenced to death due in part to t...
The U.S. Constitution Does Not Protect Stand-Your-Ground Laws 1 Aug 2013 | 04:49 am
I wish I could say "I'm only going to say this once," but I'm not. I'm going to say it over and over again, and I'm going to have to ... Read Full Post
Obama, Technology, and the Imperial Presidency 17 Jun 2013 | 11:36 pm
It's clear that a good number of activists who were not terribly bothered by President George W. Bush's post-9/11 civil liberties abuses are less comfortable with President Barack Obama's. Most of thi...
I'd Rather Be Useful Than Loud 1 Jun 2013 | 02:59 am
Reader Allison S. took issue with my "Is Abortion Murder?" piece. Since most of the people who write me about this article take it in a completely different direction than the one I'd intended, I aske...
Bloomberg: NYCLU ''Extremists'' Don't Keep NYC Safe 1 May 2013 | 03:37 am
New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg has strong words for the New York Civil Liberties Union and other civil rights activists who are concerned about racial profiling by the NYPD. He said in part: ... ...
The Constitutional Path to Same-Sex Marriage 31 Mar 2013 | 12:03 pm
If we look at relevant precedents and follow them to their logical conclusions, the Supreme Court has already legalized same-sex marriage on a national level. Whether they have the political will to a...
The Privileged Court 1 Mar 2013 | 03:30 am
To hear the U.S. Supreme Court say it, racism is incredibly simple and very easy to address. As conservative justices prepared to kill section 5 of the Voting Rights Act ... Read Full Post
Can Marco Rubio Save Comprehensive Immigration Reform? 15 Jan 2013 | 11:34 pm
I said it in November: [C]onservative Republicans still control the House - but it is clear that they can't afford to placate or offend their party's nativist base. If they repeat the mistakes they ma...
Relax: Nobody's Going to Repeal the Second Amendment... 11 Jan 2013 | 06:45 am
...because nobody has to. It's already ineffective, and is unlikely to affect federal gun control policy in any significant way. The first meaningful U.S. Supreme Court application of the Second Amen...
