Constitution

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Bob Mueller measures his words, but he is as Merriam Webster’s thesaurus has it, angered, apoplectic, ballistic, choleric, enraged, foaming, fuming, furious, hopping, horn-mad, hot, incensed, indignant, inflamed (also enflamed), infuriate, infuriated, irate, ireful, livid, mad, outraged, rabid, rankled, riled, riley, roiled, sore, steamed up, steaming, teed off, ticked, wrathful, […]

Constitution

Before Trump invoked Executive Privilege he Should have Remembered Nixon

The Conversation

Nixon’s own Justice Department could not find a single example in history of anyone invoking executive privilege in an impeachment inquiry

Bill of Rights

Why the Assange indictment is a Threat to the US First Amendment

The Conversation

The American government has traditionally abstained from charging publishers of classified information for the crime of publication

Constitution

Mueller thinks Trump Committed Obstruction: Why he Wrote to Barr and why Barr Lied

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment): Devlin Barrett and Matt Zapotosky at WaPo broke the story that Special Counsel Bob Mueller wrote a sharp letter to Attorney General William Barr to protest the 4-page summary Barr put out before releasing the Mueller report to the public. The letter was private but someone just leaked it to WaPo. […]

Bill of Rights

Landmark 1st Amendment Ruling striking down Texas Law Banning Israel Boycott won by CAIR

contributors

By Arsalan Bukhari | – WASHINGTON, D.C. (CAIR News Release) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization today welcomed this afternoon’s landmark victory in CAIR’s First Amendment lawsuit on behalf of Bahia Amawi, the Texas speech language pathologist who lost her job because she refused to […]

Bill of Rights

When it Comes to Actively Defending Religious Minorities, Trump is no George Washington; but he Should Be

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – If Trump were actually acting as a president, he could and would tamp down the terrifying spread of hatred against Muslims that has resulted in several mass murders at mosques in the English-speaking world in recent years. All he would have to do is come out and say that ordinary […]

Bernie Sanders

In Historic Rebuke to Trump, Senate invokes War Powers to Halt US aid to Saudi War on Yemen

Juan Cole

Thousands of children have starved and 16 million persons are food insecure in the world’s worst humanitarian crisis

Constitution

Congress must reject Israel Anti-Boycott Act

Human Rights Watch

Don’t Punish Companies for ending abuses in Palestinian West Bank

Constitution

ACTION ALERT: Tell Congress to Protect Your Right to Free Speech for Palestine!

ADC

Washington, D.C. | www.adc.org | December 18, 2018 – ADC condemns in the strongest terms the unconstitutional bill, SR. 70, The Israel Anti-Boycott Act. Senator Ben Cardin re-introduced the proposed bill to the 2019 annual omnibus legislation, that can be a voted on any day! It is URGENT that YOU ACT NOW and contact Congressional […]