Labor Day Send-off
"A Moroccan immigrant who was held for three years before his terrorism-related conviction was thrown out has filed a $9 million federal lawsuit against the prosecutor and two others involved in the case," the Associated Press reported.
More commentary by MoreSoftMoneyHardLaw on Tova Wang's op-ed on suppression of the content of her report regarding voter fraud and intimidation by the Election Assistance Commission. We wrote about it here.
American Progress hosted an event yesterday on FISA. Information about it is available here. Relatedly, Glenn Greenwald has a piece on warrantless surveillance of Coretta Scott King.
Death sentence commuted in Texas for a person sentenced to die for the murder committed by another; commentary at Lawyers Guns & Money.
Jeralyn at TalkLeft discusses a class action lawsuit brought on behalf of foreign-born widows facing deportation because their husbands died before immigration paperwork was approved.
Religion Clause reports that "another use of Pentagon facilities by evangelical Christian groups has been uncovered by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation."
The Wall Street Journal reports on budget problems at the DOJ.
Update:
ThinkProgress reports that military censors have banned the progressive web site from the U.S. military network in Baghdad subsequent to its posting an article by Retired Major General John Batiste that criticized the President's Iraq policy. Think Progress reports that other media outlets, including Fox News, are still accessible to the troops.
Firedoglake fronts a U.S. News & World Report article that reports "one fourth of the department’s own civil appellate staff has recently opted out of handling the government’s cases against detainee appeals."
More commentary by MoreSoftMoneyHardLaw on Tova Wang's op-ed on suppression of the content of her report regarding voter fraud and intimidation by the Election Assistance Commission. We wrote about it here.
American Progress hosted an event yesterday on FISA. Information about it is available here. Relatedly, Glenn Greenwald has a piece on warrantless surveillance of Coretta Scott King.
Death sentence commuted in Texas for a person sentenced to die for the murder committed by another; commentary at Lawyers Guns & Money.
Jeralyn at TalkLeft discusses a class action lawsuit brought on behalf of foreign-born widows facing deportation because their husbands died before immigration paperwork was approved.
Religion Clause reports that "another use of Pentagon facilities by evangelical Christian groups has been uncovered by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation."
The Wall Street Journal reports on budget problems at the DOJ.
Update:
ThinkProgress reports that military censors have banned the progressive web site from the U.S. military network in Baghdad subsequent to its posting an article by Retired Major General John Batiste that criticized the President's Iraq policy. Think Progress reports that other media outlets, including Fox News, are still accessible to the troops.
Firedoglake fronts a U.S. News & World Report article that reports "one fourth of the department’s own civil appellate staff has recently opted out of handling the government’s cases against detainee appeals."
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