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Thursday, February 9th, 2012

Posts Tagged the wire

‘The Wire’ and the Bad Guys of Subprime Lending

By | 09.14.09 | 9:01 am

Journalist and social critic Barbara Ehrenreich takes on the recession’s racial divide, making the point that the hard times are hitting the black community with particular fervor. In a New York Times piece this weekend, Ehrenreich correctly pointed out that even high-income blacks were more likely than More…

Detentions and the War/Use-of-Military-Force Distinction

By | 07.02.09 | 12:42 pm

To build off Daphne’s post about defining the battlefield on which detentions occur, Hofstra law professor Eric M. Freedman writes in to make a point about the constitutional differences between a Congressionally-declared war and the situation we’ve been in since 9/11, in which Congress authorized the use of military More…