All are sitting federal court of appeals judges who were nominated by Democratic presidents. All three are deeply admired by their colleagues and are among a small group of the very finest federal judges in the country. And all three have names you ...
Last September a broad coalition of politicians, Church leaders, environmentalists and indigenous groups launched a campaign to reassert state control over the country’s fresh water resources, which were privatized in the early 1980s under the ...
United States Secretary of Defence Robert Gates came into office wanting to close the American detention operation at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Nearly two years later, Guantanamo is still there. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said she wants to ...
“Good morning Endesa,” the bright-yellow sign read. “If you’re really concerned about your children’s children, don’t destroy Patagonia.” The message, written in the form of a letter and signed “Sincerely, Greenpeace,” echoes an Endesa ad ...
The move came in response to an official complaint filed last month by opponents of the large-scale dam project, which is slated for Region XI’s Baker and Pascua Rivers (PT, May 19). Fourteen members of Congress’ so-called “Green Bench,” a loose ...
Yes, habeas corpus has been grandly re-established at Guantanamo. But, as the court majority made clear in this brief passage, that does not mean the government is holding a single person illegally at the base. Nor did the court have a whole lot to say ...
Also on TNR.com today: E.J. Graff suggests that Democrats who fear the political fallout of the gay marriage ruling are wrong-headed--from both an ethical and an electoral standpoint. "Barack Obama has always believed that same-sex couples should ...
Accorsi approached the Comptroller – a government supervisory institution – in name of the so-called “Green Bench,” a group of pro-environment members of Congress that includes Sen. Alejandro Navarro of the Socialist Party and Sen. Guido Girardi ...
The Supreme Court last week gave the country an object lesson in the absurdity of the Eighth Amendment--at least, as it is currently understood by the justices. On a single day, it handed down a decision upholding as constitutional the specific mixture ...
The disclosure of the former Bush administration lawyer John Yoo's "torture memo" this week was, in most senses, an exercise less in news than in archaeology. The public has long known the memo existed. And it has also known, in broad strokes, what it ...
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