Does It Matter If You Call It ‘Torture’?

As every lawyer knows, language matters. Bill Clinton was famously impeached because his definition of “sexual relations” didn’t include oral sex – a definition that Republican lawyers didn’t agree with.

So does it matter if the interrogation techniques that were used, authorized and encouraged by senior officials in the US More…

Ideology of Judges Determine Asylum Seekers’ Fate

?In August 2006, then-Atty. Gen. Alberto Gonzales unveiled a 22-point plan to rescue the severely strained immigration court system. Gonzales vowed to better assist and police the more than 200 U.S. immigration judges, who are civil servants in the Executive Office for Immigration Review at the More…