http://blogs.citypages.com/ecassel/ Cassel: Civil Liberties Watch en Copyright 2010 Wed, 30 Nov 2005 19:13:34 -0600 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss On Tuesday, November 22, two cases that I had followed and written about since their inception took a strange turn. Jose Padilla’s case received the most attention. He is the American citizen who was picked up in Chicago in May... http://blogs.citypages.com/ecassel/2005/11/gotchadue_process_with_vengean.php http://blogs.citypages.com/ecassel/2005/11/gotchadue_process_with_vengean.php Wed, 30 Nov 2005 19:13:34 -0600 I wrote about the case of the Detroit "sleeper cell" in my book, The War on Civil Liberties. When the book went to press, Judge Rosen was considering defense motions to set aside the verdicts. Apparently the Justice Department is... http://blogs.citypages.com/ecassel/2005/11/prosecutor_under_investigation.php http://blogs.citypages.com/ecassel/2005/11/prosecutor_under_investigation.php Sun, 20 Nov 2005 06:47:07 -0600 http://writ.findlaw.com/cassel/20051107.html ---- The Shocking Trial of American Citizen Ahmed Abu Ali: Statements Procured Under Duress in a Saudi Prison Are Now Being Used by U.S. Prosecutors in a U.S. Court By ELAINE CASSEL ---- Monday, Nov. 07, 2005 Ahmed... http://blogs.citypages.com/ecassel/2005/11/the_shocking_case_of_ahmed_oma.php http://blogs.citypages.com/ecassel/2005/11/the_shocking_case_of_ahmed_oma.php Wed, 09 Nov 2005 17:03:03 -0600 As I have been predicting since the passage of the Patriot Act, the FBI is using "security letters" to conduct widespread surveillance of tens of thousands of Americans. The letters are simply demands from FBI Field Officers, for businesses, health... http://blogs.citypages.com/ecassel/2005/11/fbi_conducting_widespread_surv.php http://blogs.citypages.com/ecassel/2005/11/fbi_conducting_widespread_surv.php Sat, 05 Nov 2005 21:57:47 -0600 Concerned about wardrobe and his dogs, Michael Brown preened while New Orleans sank. Should have gotten out of the job sooner, he sighs. True, and once again Congress was MIA when they approved this loser as head of FEMA. http://blogs.citypages.com/ecassel/2005/10/index.asp... http://blogs.citypages.com/ecassel/2005/11/michael_browns_emails.php http://blogs.citypages.com/ecassel/2005/11/michael_browns_emails.php Thu, 03 Nov 2005 15:25:50 -0600 The media is filled with Republican pundits, right-wring Christians, and arrogant politicians lambasting Patrick Fitzgerald for prosecuting Scooter Libby for lying to the FBI and the grand jury. Not a "real" crime, sniffs Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, who, surely, being... http://blogs.citypages.com/ecassel/2005/10/a_moment_of_truth.php http://blogs.citypages.com/ecassel/2005/10/a_moment_of_truth.php Sat, 29 Oct 2005 18:43:34 -0600 We have rightly heard a great deal of commentary on an important question: What would the confirmation of Judge John Roberts - who would take retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's Supreme Court seat - mean for the right of privacy,... http://blogs.citypages.com/ecassel/2005/08/john_roberts_and_the_death_pen.php http://blogs.citypages.com/ecassel/2005/08/john_roberts_and_the_death_pen.php Imported Wed, 17 Aug 2005 20:24:28 -0600 Just running down the alphabet, I can describe the right-wing conservatives and corporations running our country: authoritarian, bullying, closed-minded, demanding, entitled, farcical, gutless, hypocritical, inconsistent, jarring, kowtowing, lame, mean-spirited, nasty, oppressive, power-hungry, quixotic, radical, sanctimonious, tyrannical, unconvincing, vicious, weak, xenophobic,... http://blogs.citypages.com/ecassel/2005/08/why_the_right_gets_it_wrong.php http://blogs.citypages.com/ecassel/2005/08/why_the_right_gets_it_wrong.php Imported Sun, 07 Aug 2005 09:36:33 -0600 By ELAINE CASSELOn July 4, 2003, I took my customary bike trip into DC from my home in Virginia. Along the Potomac River, across the bridge, onto the "National Mall," as it is called. The strip of land that runs... http://blogs.citypages.com/ecassel/2005/07/fenced_out_of_the_fourth_of_ju.php http://blogs.citypages.com/ecassel/2005/07/fenced_out_of_the_fourth_of_ju.php Imported Mon, 04 Jul 2005 05:54:18 -0600 On March 31, Teresa "Terri" Schiavo died. But the controversy over her case, it turns out, may live on - not only in the media, but perhaps in court, as well. On June 15, Pinellas County Medical Examiner Jon... http://blogs.citypages.com/ecassel/2005/07/jeb_bush_still_playing_politic.php http://blogs.citypages.com/ecassel/2005/07/jeb_bush_still_playing_politic.php Imported Sun, 03 Jul 2005 22:55:37 -0600 http://blogs.citypages.com/ecassel/2005/07/why_this_liberal_will_miss_jus.php http://blogs.citypages.com/ecassel/2005/07/why_this_liberal_will_miss_jus.php Imported Sun, 03 Jul 2005 22:46:19 -0600 > Twenty-three-year-old, Houston-born American citizen Ahmed Omar Abu Ali has been returned to Virginia after twenty months in solitary confinement in a Saudi Arabian prison. But he returned only to face arraignment, on February 22, in U.S. District Court in... http://blogs.citypages.com/ecassel/2005/03/the_troubling_case_of_ahmed_ab.php http://blogs.citypages.com/ecassel/2005/03/the_troubling_case_of_ahmed_ab.php Imported Mon, 14 Mar 2005 17:55:58 -0600 Standards Needed for Juvenile Confessions, Panelists Say Elaine Cassel said science is supporting the idea that juveniles don't understand the consequences of waiving their right to an attorney. With scientific studies showing that juvenile brains are not fully developed... http://blogs.citypages.com/ecassel/2005/02/elaine_cassel_on_juvenile_conf.php http://blogs.citypages.com/ecassel/2005/02/elaine_cassel_on_juvenile_conf.php Imported Sat, 19 Feb 2005 15:35:30 -0600 On February 10, after thirteen days of deliberations, a federal jury in New York City returned a guilty verdict in the case of 65-year-old attorney Lynne Stewart. The jury found Stewart guilty on five counts of defrauding the government, conspiracy,... http://blogs.citypages.com/ecassel/2005/02/the_lynne_stewart_verdict_stre.php http://blogs.citypages.com/ecassel/2005/02/the_lynne_stewart_verdict_stre.php Imported Wed, 16 Feb 2005 19:27:48 -0600 Respecting the Spirit and Letter of the Law By Senator Robert Byrd, AlterNet Posted on February 3, 2005, Printed on February 4, 2005 http://www.alternet.org/story/21170/ Sen. Byrd delivered the following remarks regarding the nomination of Alberto Gonzales to be the... http://blogs.citypages.com/ecassel/2005/02/a_presidentand_attorney_genera.php http://blogs.citypages.com/ecassel/2005/02/a_presidentand_attorney_genera.php Imported Fri, 04 Feb 2005 08:31:27 -0600