The writ of habeas corpus is much older than the US constitution. That writ, which enables people detained by the government to challenge their detention in court, has been regarded as an essential bulwark of liberty in the English-speaking world […]
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On Wednesday, 19 March, Arizona executed Aaron Gunches by lethal injection. As ABC News reports, he was put to death for “kidnapping and killing 40-year-old Ted Price by shooting him four times in the Arizona desert”. Gunches’s case was unusual
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Last week, the Trump administration crossed a red line in its unprecedented attack on American higher education. In a letter to Columbia University, the administration laid out a series of sweeping changes that the school must take to reverse the
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In recent weeks, President Donald Trump has imagined himself as a kind of American monarch or a powerful president needing a third term to save this nation. With Trump, it is always hard to separate the pure flights of fantasy
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Reading Chief Justice John Roberts’ annual end-of-year report on the federal judiciary is a bit unsettling, and not just because of its enumeration of the very real dangers to this country’s long tradition of judicial independence that we now face.
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Very early on Wednesday morning, after a 15-year hiatus, Indiana got back into the execution business. The lethal injection of Joseph Corcoran happened in near-secret, highlighting a worrying trend in the state that seems designed to keep the public in
Indiana executed a man in near-secret this week. It shouldn’t be that way. Read More »
I am an unabashed admirer of President Joe Biden. He has done a remarkably good job for the American people. But I am deeply disappointed by Sunday night’s pardon of his son Hunter. I respect and admire the president’s devotion
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