In a recent post that was meant to be funny, I noted the proposal to put Guantanamo detainees on the no-fly list. Wrecking people’s day at the airport, the cruelest torture. Get it? Oh well.
Anyway, that proposal – to put former detainees at Guantanamo on the no-fly list – was added to the TSA [...]
The torture debate has taken a new twist. A bill introduced in Congress yesterday would subject Guantanamo detainees to one of the cruelest tortures known to man. Nobody should suffer a fate like this, but the bill does have a chance of passing.
H.R. 2503 would put Guantanamo detainees on the Department of Homeland Security’s no-fly [...]
The Sunday morning political shows spent some time today on a bill that was introduced in the House last week. H.R. 2294 is called the Keep Terrorists Out of America Act – OK! OK! I’m for it! With a name like that . . . .
And that’s why the bill has such a name, [...]
So far: Kansas, South Carolina, California, Oklahoma, Colorado, Georgia, and North Carolina.
Oh, and the whooole country.
Update: Arizona, too!
Update II: And Florida.
Update III: Virginia too!
Update IV: Also Minnesota.
Update V: Found another! Ohio!
The Supreme Court recently ended its October 2007 term. There’s always a flurry of interest around this time as big cases are often handed down late in the term.
Here’s more analysis than you need of the term just ended from SCOTUSBlog and a summary of some of the most significant recent cases.
Supreme Court cases [...]