In a move that activists call unnecessary and based on bigotry, Rep. Tom Hooker (R-Byron Center) wants to make sure that Michigan taxpayers do not foot the bill for any gender assignment surgeries Michigan prisoners may need as part of their treatment.
This week the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues is discussing its safety and protection standards for people who participate in federally-funded scientific studies. It’s a sensitive topic for the government, as late last year information surfaced that from 1946 to 1948, the U.S. Public Health Service More…
The debate over counting illegal immigrants on the census has been discussed over and over again.
But what about immigrant detainees awaiting deportation? The Texas Observer yesterday highlighted an interesting loophole in which immigrant detainees in detention centers are More…
“Has the Obama administration changed the legal rules for detaining suspects in the war on terrorism,” asked Harvard law professor Noah Feldman in an op-ed in The New York Times today, “or is it continuing in the footsteps of the Bush administration?”
In an October 2001 memo released today on Monday, then-Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel John Yoo advised the Pentagon’s top lawyer that the president may not only deploy the military within the United States, but it may More…
The Washington Post today reports on yet another challenge for the Obama administration: finding the documents that will reveal just who all those Guantanamo Bay prisoners really are, and what, if anything, they’ve done wrong.
In their piece, reporters Karen DeYoung and Peter Finn report that the Bush administration’s More…
After hearing arguments on whether prisoners held indefinitely without charge at the U.S.-controlled prison at the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan have the right to challenge their detention in American courts, Judge John D. Bates of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia late Wednesday ordered the government More…
Although Britain repeatedly refused Bush administration requests to take prisoners being held by US authorities at Guantanamo Bay, UPI reported on Thursday, via the Times of London, that the British government has changed its mind.
Eager to help president Obama close down the prison when he takes over in More…
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