Posts by Daphne Eviatar

Last week, it was revealed that the law that makes it a federal crime to threaten or commit violence against abortion providers, or to vandalize their clinics, wasn’t being enforced. Now our sister site, the Washington Independent, finds that the Bush administration’s Department of Justice did little over the past eight years in enforcing the civil component of that federal law.

A Guantanamo detainee’s transfer to the United States for trial is at odds with the president’s call for a new system of indefinite imprisonment.

Many of the same conservatives criticizing Sonia Sotomayor for her decision in a reverse discrimination case once supported a race-based initiative: No Child Left Behind.

Noting that most of the criticism from the right of Supreme Court Justice nominee Sonia Sotomayor has completely ignored her long written record as a court of appeals judge, SCOTUSblog offers a detailed analysis of “an obviously serious candidate to serve on the Supreme Court.”
Here’s the authoritative blog’s take on Sotomayor’s opinions on key cases [...]

If the anti-immigrant reactions to the outbreak of H1N1 influenza — “swine flu” — are any indication, advocates for immigration reform are going to have an uphill battle in Congress this year.

A comprehensive report issued by Amnesty International USA Wednesday finds that tens of thousands of immigrants — and, in one case, a Minnesota-born citizen — have been held in detention in the United States, many in violation of international law.

Studies and Congressional testimony show an immigration system with few rules or supervision.