Human Rights Law

Bush's Killing Fields: Turning Iraq Into Vietnam

Posted on August 25, 2007
Desperate to shore up support for continuing his unpopular war on Iraq, George W. Bush drew an analogy with Vietnam when he addressed the Veterans of Foreign Wars. "The price of America's withdrawal [from Vietnam] was paid by millions of innocent citizens," Bush declared...

FISA Revised: A Blank Check for Domestic Spying

Posted on August 09, 2007
Responding to fear-mongering by the Bush administration, the Democrat-led Congress put its stamp of approval on the unconstitutional wiretapping of Americans.George W. Bush has perfected the art of ramming ill-considered legislation through Congress by hyping emergencies that don't exist...

Time for an Independent Counsel

Posted on July 30, 2007
Congressional leaders are calling for the appointment of a special counsel to investigate possible perjury charges against Alberto Gonzales. As we saw during the Watergate scandal, the executive branch cannot be counted on to investigate itself.Watergate led to the enactment of the Ethics in Government Act...

Showdown Looming Over Executive Privilege

Posted on July 24, 2007
George W. Bush's presidential tenure has been marked by one cover-up after another. But the masterful spinning of Karl Rove and a compliant media enabled Bush to get away with it. Now that the Democrat-controlled Congress is investigating administration malfeasance, Bush's cover-ups have come cloaked in the guise of "executive privilege...

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Iraqis Will Be the Deciders

Posted on July 19, 2007
As Congress debates whether to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq, George Bush is trying to buy time. He and Dick Cheney have no intention of ever pulling out of Iraq.Cheney commissioned a 2000 report by the neoconservative Project for a New American Century, which said ?the need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein...

Reining In an Out-of-Control Executive

Posted on July 17, 2007
Our Founding Fathers created three separate but co-equal branches of government to check and balance each other so no one branch would become all powerful. Indeed, James Madison wrote in the Federalist Papers, "The preservation of liberty requires that the three great departments of power should be separate and distinct...

The Opportunistic Commuter-in-Chief: The use and misuse of presidential clemency power

Posted on July 06, 2007
When he announced the commutation of Scooter Libby's 30-month sentence, George W. Bush cited the ways Libby has and will suffer: damage to his reputation, the suffering of his wife and children, large fines, and the "long-lasting" consequences of being a convicted felon...

Targeting Dissent: FBI Spying on the National Lawyers Guild

Posted on June 26, 2007
In 1937, the American Bar Association refused to allow people of color to join its ranks. With the blessing of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the National Lawyers Guild was founded as a multi-racial alternative to the ABA. The Guild's founding members included the attorney general, several judges, some congressmen, and the head of the National Labor Relations Board...

Repression in Oaxaca: One Year Anniversary of State?s Bloody Attack on Popular Movements

Posted on June 12, 2007
There's an Aztec legend of a warrior who was in love with a princess. When he left to go into battle, the lovers promised each other eternal love. The warrior died in battle, but to fulfill his promise to the princess, he came back as a brilliant orange flower...

No Unlawful Enemy Combatants at Guantanamo

Posted on June 06, 2007
In 2002, Donald Rumsfeld famously called the detainees at Guantánamo "the worst of the worst." General Richard B. Myers, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, warned they were "very dangerous people who would gnaw hydraulic lines in the back of a C-17 to bring it down...

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