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Opinion: The One Question Elena Kagan Won't Get Asked

(June 29) -- Here's something you won't learn about at Elena Kagan's confirmation hearings. Every week or so, the U.S. Supreme Court renders the final decision in hundreds of cases, and its answer is almost always the same: deny. The court swats away about 99 percent of the 8,000 litigants asking for its attention each...

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Rev. Richard L. Killmer: An Apology to Maher Arar -- Moving Beyond the Season of Fear

Since 9/11, there has been a vigorous debate in this country about the morality, legality and efficacy of using torture as a means of obtaining needed information.

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05/23/12 Rights Groups To U.S.: âApology Is Now Long Overdue'... Source: Think Progress When Maher Arar arrived at New York's JFK airport in 2002, he was only supposed to change planes and continue his journey from visiting relatives in Tunisia back to his home in Canada.
05/22/12 More than 60,000 people ask Barack Obama to apologize... Source: CHBC Television More than 60,000 people have signed a petition asking U.S. President Barack Obama to formally apologize to Maher Arar, the Canadian who became a symbol of human rights abuses following the 9-11 terrorist attacks.
05/21/12 60,000 People Ask President Obama for Apology to... Source: YubaNet.com - Nevada City CA Today, Amnesty International USA, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and the National Religious Campaign Against Torture delivered to the White House a petition of more than 60,000 signatures asking President Obama to extend a formal apology to Maher Arar. Arar is a Canadian citizen who was detained in 2002 by the United States and sent to Syria where he was tortured and imprisoned without charge for a year.
04/26/12 Obama Justice and medical marijuana Source: Salon.com The prime minister of Canada apologized Friday to Maher Arar and agreed to give $9 million in compensation to the Canadian Arab , who was spirited by U.S. agents to Syria and tortured there after being falsely named as a terrorism suspect.
04/24/12 Federal judge complicity Source: Baltimore Chronicle & Sentinel - Baltimore MD Two of the most under-discussed afflictions in American political life are inter-related: (1) the heinous, inhumane treatment of prisoners on American soil (often, though certainly not exclusively, Muslim political prisoners), and (2) the virtually complete abdication by subservient federal courts in the post-9/11 era of their duty to hold Executive Branch officials accountable for unconstitutional and otherwise illegal acts in the War on Terror context.