“With All Deliberate Speed”: Rasul V. Bush, Ten Year Later
Ten years ago Saturday, the Supreme Court ruled, in Rasul v. Bush, that foreign “enemy combatants” held at Guantánamo Bay Naval Station had a right to challenge the legality of their detention in...
View ArticleTerror Prosecutions and Muslim-Americans
Several years ago, I participated in a study of relations between Muslim-American communities and law enforcement. The study focused on local councils that brought the two groups together to share...
View ArticleThe Color of Justice
Jon Stewart was on vacation when Darren Wilson, a twenty-eight-year-old white police officer, shot and killed Michael Brown, an eighteen-year-old unarmed black man, in Ferguson, Missouri. But Fox News...
View ArticleNo Coward on Race
The other day, I attended an investiture ceremony for Robert Wilkins, an African-American judge recently appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. At the ceremony,...
View ArticleTaking Responsibility for Torture
More than twelve years after the C.I.A. began torturing Al Qaeda suspects in secret prisons overseas, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence today made public the executive summary of its...
View ArticleAlbert Woodfoxâs Forty Years in Solitary Confinement
For virtually all of the past forty-three years, Albert Woodfox, a sixty-eight-year-old man in poor health, has been in solitary confinement in a six-by-nine-foot cell. He’s allowed out of his cell for...
View ArticleJustice Breyer v. the Death Penalty
The two most unusual opinions of the past Supreme Court term addressed issues that were not even presented by the cases before the Court. In a dispute involving claims of racial discrimination in jury...
View ArticleAlbert Woodfox and the Case Against Solitary Confinement
On Friday, February 19th, Albert Woodfox turned sixty-nine and walked out of a Louisiana prison, celebrating his first birthday as a free man in more than forty-five years. He had spent nearly all of...
View ArticleWhy Hasn’t Obama’s Clemency Initiative Helped More Nonviolent Drug Offenders?
On January 9th, Alton Mills was released from a federal prison in Mendota, California, after spending nearly half his life behind bars. In 1994, when Mills was twenty-five and living on the South Side...
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