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Ear to the Ground: A Decade of Guantanamo

Reports: The Case You Go to Law School For

Cartoons: Georgia Justice

Cartoons: Doubt

A/V Booth: Cornel West Recalls the Attica Prison Rebellion

Reports: The Real Dr. King: An Extremist for Justice

Ear to the Ground: Is the FBI Catching Terrorists, or Coaching Them?

Ear to the Ground: Prosecutors Are Expected to Drop Strauss-Kahn Charges

Reports: Taking the Justice Out of the Justice System

Reports: Killer in Chief

Ear to the Ground: Pakistani Lawyer Blocked From U.S. After Suing CIA on Drone Strikes

Truthdig Podcast: Innocent and Executed

A/V Booth: Innocent and Executed

Ear to the Ground: FBI Makes It Easier to Pry

Reports: No Justice in Kafka’s America

A/V Booth: Why Our Broken System Sends the Wrong People to Prison

Truthdig Podcast: Why Our Broken System Sends the Wrong People to Prison

Ear to the Ground: High Court Takes On Immigration Legislation

Ear to the Ground: Supreme Court Orders California to Lose as Many as 46,000 Prisoners

A/V Booth: ‘Colbert Report’: Wisconsin’s Supreme Showdown

Reports: One Guantanamo Trial That Will Be Held in New York

Ear to the Ground: Lehman Execs May Escape Charges

Ear to the Ground: Obama Punts on Guantanamo

Reports: Activist Judges Strike Again

Ear to the Ground: Illinois Is One Signature Away From Ending the Death Penalty

Reports: Defusing a Sociological Bomb

Ear to the Ground: How America Exiles Unwanted Teenagers

Arts and Culture: Top Court Mulls Video Game Violence

Ear to the Ground: Stevens v. Scalia

Ear to the Ground: Weighing Free Speech Against Hate Speech

Ear to the Ground: America Prefers to Execute Men, Apparently

Arts and Culture: HIV-Positive Pop Star Could Go to Prison

Ear to the Ground: Elena Kagan Gets Her Robe

Ear to the Ground: Kagan’s Confirmation Looks Likely

Ear to the Ground: BART Cop Convicted of Involuntary Manslaughter

Ear to the Ground: Top Court Revamps Life Sentence Rules for Underage Criminals

Ear to the Ground: Kagan Goes A’Courtin’ on Capitol Hill

A/V Booth: ‘Colbert Report’: Elena Kagan May Not Enjoy Bratwurst

Cartoons: White Out

Ear to the Ground: SCOTUS Strikes Down Animal Cruelty Law

Ear to the Ground: Stevens Will Hang Up His Robe

Ear to the Ground: Judge Rules That Bush’s Illegal Wiretap Program Was Just That

Reports: Rachel Corrie’s (Posthumous) Day in Court

Ear to the Ground: SCOTUS Considering Change in National Gun Ownership Laws

Reports: Zazi Case Vindicates Traditional Methods

Ear to the Ground: John Yoo Takes Credit for ‘Saving’ Obama Presidency

Reports: Don’t Ask, Don’t Judge?

Reports: The Terror-Industrial Complex

Cartoons: Supreme Fuck-Up

Ear to the Ground: O’Connor Obliquely Critiques SCOTUS Campaign Finance Ruling

Ear to the Ground: European Human Rights Group, U.S. Media Decry SCOTUS Ruling

Reports: A Supreme Victory for Special Interests

Reports: Battlefield in the War of Ideas

Reports: What Is So Patriotic About Hysteria?

Reports: The Tortured Logic Continues

Ear to the Ground: Louisiana Judge Steps Down Amid Interracial Marriage Controversy

Reports: The Best Justice That Money Can Buy

Ear to the Ground: A Cruel and Unusual Waste of Money

Ear to the Ground: High Times for States’ Rights

Ear to the Ground: SCOTUS Ponders Dog-Fighting Videos, ‘Human Sacrifice Channel’

Ear to the Ground: Justice to Tackle Federal Secrecy Abuses

Ear to the Ground: Remembering Sacco and Vanzetti

Reports: Troy Davis and the Meaning of ‘Actual Innocence’

Ear to the Ground: What Lies Ahead for Justice Sotomayor?

Ear to the Ground: Sotomayor Makes the Senate Cut

Reports: A Judge With a View

Reports: Two Standards of Detention

Reports: The Crooks Get Cash While the Poor Get Screwed

Reports: America’s ICE Backwards Approach to Immigration

Ear to the Ground: Gays Losing Patience With Team Obama

Reports: Fighting Crime by Reforming Juvenile Hall

Truthdig Podcast: Fighting Crime by Reforming Juvenile Hall

Reports: A Wise Person for the Court

Reports: Why Obama’s Court Pick Is Already a Winner

Reports: In Praise of Empathy

Reports: Double-Flipping on ‘Identity Politics’

Ear to the Ground: Souter Is Outer

Arts and Culture: Eve Pell on America’s Culture of Punishment

Ear to the Ground: Holder Says He Will Pursue Torture Wrongdoing

Reports: Torturers Should Be Punished

Ear to the Ground: Obama: Justice Could Prosecute Torture Lawyers

Reports: Bybee Must Go

Cartoons: Doing Nothing

Ear to the Ground: The 183rd Time’s the Charm

Ear to the Ground: Clarence Thomas on Rights, Miraculous Dishwashers

A/V Booth: Colorblind Justice? Well, Not Exactly

Cartoons: One Bad Apple

Reports: Walk Away, Rihanna—You’re a Role Model

Reports: Why Did So Few Americans Give a Damn?

Ear to the Ground: Prop. 8 Likely to Stand

Reports: Nine Secret Bush-Era Documents Released

Reports: The President’s Address to Congress

Ear to the Ground: Attorney General: On Race, America Is ‘a Nation of Cowards’

Reports: Jailing Kids for Cash

Ear to the Ground: Rebutting the False Choice Between Security and Freedom

Ear to the Ground: Israel’s Kingmaker in Legal Limbo

Ear to the Ground: Justice Ginsburg Has Pancreatic Cancer

Reports: Too Big to Fail, Too Big to Jail

Reports: What Can Obama Learn From Bush?

Reports: Still Dreaming After All These Years

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Fails in Human Rights Role

Reports: Believe It or Not, 2008 Was Relatively Nonviolent

Reports: What Nixon Admitted (and Cheney Won’t)

Arts and Culture: Allen Barra on ‘Frost/Nixon’

Reports: Sweeping Blackwater Under the Rug

Ear to the Ground: Blackwater Guards Indicted for Shootings

Arts and Culture: Warren I. Cohen on China’s ‘Factory Girls’

Arts and Culture: Get Milk

Reports: The Smoke Is Clearing

Ear to the Ground: California’s High Court to Rule on Marriage Ban

Reports: To This Minister, Prop. 8 Is Repugnant

Reports: Only Nader Is Right on the Issues

Reports: End of a Catholic Commandment?

Reports: The Next President’s Supreme Legacy

Ear to the Ground: Investigation Into Prosecutor Firings Is Dampened

Reports: From Fired U.S. Attorneys to Sarah Palin

Reports: They Claim the Bailout Is Necessary, but Is It Constitutional?

Reports: A Special Prosecutor for Wall Street

Reports: Troy Davis and the Supreme Decision

Ear to the Ground: Mukasey Gives Scandalistas a Pass

Ear to the Ground: Justice Investigation Moving Toward White House

Ear to the Ground: Panel Cites Rove for Contempt

Ear to the Ground: Victor’s Justice

Ear to the Ground: World Court Fights U.S. Executions

Ear to the Ground: Failing Rape Victims

Ear to the Ground: Justice Dept. Cherry-Picked Conservatives

Arts and Culture: Tony Platt on American Eugenics

Reports: Impatient Justice

A/V Booth: ‘Left, Right & Center’: Supreme Court Rules, McCain Rails

Reports: One for the Constitution

Reports: Obama Strikes a Chord With a Disaffected Republican

Arts and Culture: Amy Wilentz on Rachel Corrie

Reports: The Gay Marriage Paradox

Reports: Different Republican, Same Right-Wing Court

Ear to the Ground: Another Reason Not to Vote for McCain

Ear to the Ground: Land of the Not-So-Free

Reports: Remembering the Real Martin Luther King

Reports: Torture’s Poet Laureate

Ear to the Ground: Justice Investigates Itself Over Waterboarding Approval

Reports: Lessons of Internment

Ear to the Ground: Sentenced to Die Over a Download

Ear to the Ground: CIA: Waterboarding Possibly Illegal

Reports: Justice Is Blind, but Can She Vote?

Ear to the Ground: Judge Orders Hearing Over CIA Tape Scandal

Ear to the Ground: Supreme Court Rules Against Mandatory Minimums

Ear to the Ground: Justice to Investigate Destruction of CIA Tapes

Ear to the Ground: Students Confront Ashcroft

Ear to the Ground: Saudis Defend Decision to Lash Rape Victims

Ear to the Ground: Bush Loyalist Leaves Post Amid Staff Turmoil

Ear to the Ground: FBI Blames Blackwater in 14 Civilian Deaths

Reports: Standing Up for Torture, at Home and Abroad

A/V Booth: Keith Olbermann on Torture and Conspiracy

Ear to the Ground: Musharraf Foe Calls on Pakistan to ‘Rise Up’

Ear to the Ground: DNA Could Exonerate ‘Satanic Murderers’

Reports: The American Police State

Reports: A Farewell to ‘Black America’

Reports: Justice Is Blinded by Rage

Ear to the Ground: Secret Torture Memos Shame Justice Dept.

Ear to the Ground: Thousands March on Jena

Ear to the Ground: Bush Taps Former Judge to Head Justice Department

Ear to the Ground: Padilla Convicted

Reports: With Friends Like These, Who Needs Judges?

Reports: The Supremely Disappointing Court

Reports: The High Cost of Libby’s Silence

Ear to the Ground: Libby Goes Free

Cartoons: Trashing Precedent

Reports: Three Words for Bush and His Judges

Reports: The Way-Paver Makes Waves

Reports: The Trial of Saddam Hussein We Never Saw

Cartoons: Lowering the Bar

Ear to the Ground: White House Blasted Justice Officials for Revealing Rove Cronyism

Ear to the Ground: No-Confidence Vote on Gonzales Stalls in Senate

Ear to the Ground: Colin Powell: Close Guantanamo Immediately

Reports: Paris Is in the Eye of the Beholder

Reports: Improvisational Justice

Ear to the Ground: Italian Prisoners Ask for Death

Ear to the Ground: Gitmo Detainee Commits Suicide

Ear to the Ground: Justice O’Connor Warns Against Judicial Inconsistency

Ear to the Ground: If at First You Don’t Convict, Try, Try Again

Ear to the Ground: Bush: Hate Crime Bill ‘Unnecessary’

Reports: When Justice Is Skin-Deep

Ear to the Ground: Yahoo Sued for Collaborating With China

Reports: Leave Your Morals at the Border

A/V Booth: Senate Scoffs at Bush Offer

Cartoons: They Never Learn

Ear to the Ground: EU Gets Tough on Environmental Crime

Ear to the Ground: Blogger Jailed Longer Than Any Other Modern Journalist

Ear to the Ground: Israeli President to be Charged With Rape

A/V Booth: The Story of Detainee ISN 940

Ear to the Ground: Chief Justice Wants More Money

Ear to the Ground: Gonzales: Bush Personally Blocked DOJ Probe of Spy Program

Ear to the Ground: Petition Circulating Against U.S. Aggression in Iran

Reports: Molly Ivins: Don’t Make a Martyr of Moussaoui

Ear to the Ground: Did Scalia Prejudge Guantanamo Case?

Ear to the Ground: If Ginsburg Fell Asleep, So Did Media

Reports: Border Justice: ‘The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada’

Reports: Booking Pinochet

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