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(5 comments) SHARE Monday, April 13, 2009 How the Supreme Court Got Boumediene Wrong: Rethinking Habeas & Other Fundamental 'Constitutional Rights'
The Supreme Court's June 2008 Boumediene decision failed to live up to its potential because the Court (as is typical within the American legal community) views habeas corpus as a constitutional right, rather than viewing it as a human right. Until the American legal discourse reflects the existence of "extraconstitutional" fundamental rights, we all lack true freedom.
(6 comments) SHARE Monday, April 13, 2009 Prosecution and Pharisaism: From Pinochet to Bush
Denial of the propriety of the Spanish torture case against Bush administration officials represents Bushian hypocrisy in its cruelest, clearest form.