Constitutional Law

ACSBlog in Review: Feb. 4-8, 2008

Stories:

• A series of dispatches from Guantanamo Bay by Deborah Colson, a senior associate in the law and security program at Human Rights First, exploring solitary confinement, lessons from Guantanamo, and evidentiary abuse.
• The Department of Justice will not investigate people who engaged in waterboarding.
• The Justice Department reversed its discriminatory policy that treated DOJ Pride, an employee affinity organization, differently from other employee organizations.
• Americans who travel internationally are having data stored on their laptops and cell phones copied by the government even though there is no suspicion of wrongdoing.
• Recently proposed Small Business Administration regulations threaten to limit federal contracting set-asides for women-owned businesses.
• Protests by law students opposed to the visits of Ninth Circuit Judge Jay Bybee and Attorney General Michael Mukasey at their schools.

Resources:

• A new study from Columbia Law School found that minority law school enrollment continues to decline.
• A White Paper on principles to guide the Office of Legal Counsel.
• ACS Board of Advisors member Judge Abner Mikva was profiled in Roll Call.
• This week’s congressional hearings.
• Information on the role of the Department of Justice.

Full post as published by ACS Blog on February 08, 2008 (boomark / email).