JURIST Guest Columnist Kermit Roosevelt of the University of Pennsylvania Law School says that the question of whether the US government can seize aliens and put them beyond the reach of law goes to the heart of who we are...

Bill Goodman : "The Center for Constitutional Rights is aggressively challenging the appalling Military Commissions Act (MCA) passed by Congress last week. Our allies have already contributed cogent analyses of some of the dangers posed...

David Cynamon : "I represent the four remaining Kuwaiti detainees in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, captured in Pakistan by bounty hunters and sold to the US government. Before being sold, these captives, who were...

Elisa Massimino : "Last week, Congress adopted legislation governing the trial and treatment of detainees that is inconsistent both with the laws of war and the U.S. Constitution.On the one hand, Congress rejected an administration proposal...

Caroline Fredrickson : "Last week, the House and Senate adopted S.3930, the Military Commissions Act of 2006. In doing so, lawmakers removed important checks on the president, failed to protect due process, eliminated habeas corpus for...

Dr. James Jay Carafano : "When Congress passed the law that will govern how terrorist suspects can be tried in military tribunals, they acted just like the Founding Fathers would have wished. They stuck fast to...

JURIST Guest Columnist Adam Samaha of the University of Chicago Law School says that this Term's US Supreme Court cases will likely reveal whether we have a new boss on the Court who can push its decisions in new directions,...

JURIST Guest Columnist Douglas Branson of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that a comparison of the Andrew Fastow and Bernard Ebbers corporate fraud cases suggests that the sentences handed down for the two former high-flying executives -...

Jamie McKenzie : "The rulings by Judge Kravitz on the case against Secretary Spellings touched not on the substance of the complaints, but largely on matters of jurisdiction, judicial ripeness and timing, as he argued in the first three counts...

JURIST Guest Columnist Robert Albritton of the University of Mississippi says the recent overthrow of Thailand's elected government by unconstitutional means reflects a disconcerting failure of mass democracy in the country in the face of opposition from critical elites... For...