American Civil Liberties Union

Dear Habeas, We care so much about you that in November, we wrote a Resolution calling on Congress for your restoration. Our Resolution went all the way from our chapter to the Democratic National Committee which adopted it formally in January. We won't let you down, because we defend the U.S. Constitution - even when those who have sworn to do so

To even consider taking a person's freedom indefinitely without showing good cause flies in the face of decency. To say the suspension of Habeas Corpus is confined to individuals who are a threat to national security does not change the abusive nature of the situation. This is really something for the patriotic to get out the word that "FREEDOM

Aside from the controversy about the 385 or so detainees that the government admits to holding at Guantanamo Bay, there's a whole other issue about the secret "black site" prisons, which hold almost forty secret detainees, according to a report released by several human rights groups today. Three of the groups---Amnesty International, the Center for Constitutional

Illinois Senator, presidential candidate, and all-around political rockstar Barack Obama gets unequivocal about restoring legitimacy to our detention and "rendition" policies post 9/11. In an essay in the forthcoming Foreign Affairs, Senator Obama faces off against Republican candidate Mitt Romney, who, in the r