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Committing To Human Rights At Home and Overseas

Today marks the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration Human Rights (UDHR) and progressives are calling on the next administration to renew the nation’s commitment to human rights at home and abroad. Kevin Hsu, in a blog post for The Opportunity Agenda, noted that America could take a major...

Posted to American Constitution Society (Weblog) by Anonymous on 12-10-2008
Race to Guilt in Guantánamo Threatens to Taint Justice for 9/11 Attacks

by Devon Chaffee , the Advocacy Counsel at Human Rights First . Chafee is in Cuba to monitor the proceedings and is reporting back on events as they unfold. She is providing updates of what she observes. Guantánamo Bay, December 9, 2008: Yesterday's tumultuous military commissions in the trial...

Posted to American Constitution Society (Weblog) by Anonymous on 12-10-2008
Federal Judge Orders Release of Guantánamo Detainees

A federal judge has ordered the release of five detainees from Guantánamo Bay . The ruling in the first habeas corpus proceeding involved six Algerians captured in Bosnia in 2001. At the time of their capture, the military maintained that the men were planning to go to Afghanistan to fight the...

Posted to American Constitution Society (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-20-2008
A Bad Week for Military Tribunal

By Sharon Kelly, Human Rights First’s Elect to End Torture '08 Campaign Manager. Kelly is in Cuba to monitor the proceedings and is reporting back on events as they unfold. Guantánamo Bay, November 3, 2008: You may have missed it in the frenzied press coverage of the final days of the...

Posted to American Constitution Society (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-03-2008
Russia Takes Aim At 'South Park,' Following Religious Group's Complaints

Comedy Central’s “South Park” has irked an array of individuals and groups since its debut in the late 1990s. The animated series about the adventures of a group of youngsters in a quiet mountain town in Colorado, though critically acclaimed, has drawn sharp rebukes from this country’s...

Posted to American Constitution Society (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-08-2008
Christian Missionaries Won't Leave Chinese Airport Without Bibles

A group of American Christians devoted to serving a “worldwide church by providing necessary tools and training for the local people to fulfill Christ’s ‘Great Commission,’ is refusing to budge from a Chinese airport until its 300 Bibles are returned. The group and its leader...

Posted to American Constitution Society (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-18-2008
Government Documents Shed Light On Bush Administration's Interrogation Policies

A heavily redacted federal government memorandum adds to the allegations that the Bush administration gave a green light to the CIA on using harsh interrogation methods on al Qaeda detainees. The American Civil Liberties Union obtained the document, and two others , via a Freedom of Information Act request...

Posted to American Constitution Society (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-25-2008
Former AG John Ashcroft Before House Committee On Interrogation

Before the House Judiciary Committee, former Attorney General John Ashcroft budged only slightly on memos the Justice Department issued during the Bush administration’s first term that approved harsh interrogation methods of detainees of the “War on Terror.” The memos written by former...

Posted to American Constitution Society (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-18-2008
Ending Immunity for Government Leaders?

This week’s Economist explores whether government leaders “should be deemed ‘more equal than others’ before the law” when it comes to prosecution at home and abroad for crimes committed while in office . The article explores traditional theories of functional and personal...

Posted to American Constitution Society (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-14-2008
U.S. Immigration Policy and The "Rule of Law"

by Donald Kerwin, Executive Director of the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. Politicians, pundits and activists have touted “the rule of law” as the solution to our nation’s broken immigration system, mistakenly conflating this term with “law and order.” In fact...

Posted to American Constitution Society (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-09-2008

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