Illinois resident Laine Tadlock, former director of Benedictine University’s education program, either resigned or was forced to resign (depending on whose story you believe) because of her same-sex marriage wedding announcement in the State Journal-Register. Tadlock married her partner in Iowa after that state’s Supreme Court ruling allowing gay marriage. The [...]
The Supreme Court has denied a request by the Log Cabin Republicans that the stay of an injunction barring enforcement of the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals be vacated. Translating this from lawyer-speak into regular-person speak: the ruling by District Judge Virginia A. Phillips’ declared [...]
The 2010 Ames Moot Court Competition deals with important constitutional issues near and dear to the members of the CRCL. This year we will liveblog the competition, which takes place Tuesday, November 16th, at 7:30pm. Find all the info here. Find the 2011 Ames Semifinals Liveblog here. Two teams of six [...]
A special prosecutor cleared the CIA’s former top clandestine officer and others [on November 9th] of any charges for destroying agency videotapes showing waterboarding of terror suspects [...] The decision not to prosecute anyone in the destruction of the videotapes came five years to the day after the CIA destroyed [...]
Last Tuesday, while Democrats were losing control of the House and maintaining tenuous control of the Senate, three Iowa Supreme Court justices were losing their jobs. Chief Justice Marsha Ternus and Justices David Baker and Michael Streit—three of the seven justices who recently legalized gay marriage in Iowa—were voted off [...]
PDF version: Dangerous Deference: The Supreme Court of Canada in Canada v. Khadr The Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review Draft of Rangaviz Case Comment, 46 Harv. C.R.–C.L. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2011). David Rangaviz*† American troops captured Omar Khadr, a Canadian citizen, in Afghanistan when he was fifteen years [...]
Ari Ezra Waldman, HLS grad from ’05 and current faculty member of the Western School of Law in San Diego, California, contributes an interesting write-up to the Log Cabin Republican’s appeal of the 9th Circuit’s stay of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell suspension (finding: the 9th Circuit needs to go back [...]
MSNBC Host Keith Olbermann was suspended on Friday after it was reported that he made donations to Democratic political campaigns. Olbermann’s employer, MSNBC, cites a policy that requires individuals to ask for permission before making donations to partisan political campaigns. Though Olbermann has since been reinstated and will return to [...]
Today, Amicus launches its new Features section, which will offer essays and interviews featuring prominent figures in the civil rights/civil liberties community. We are happy to have Tom Perez, the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, as our first featured guest. Recently, Amicus [...]
From today’s Supreme Court argument in Schwarzenegger v. EMA, a nice shout out for those of us who got our hand-eye coordination–such as it is–trying to protect the freedom of Earthrealm. And another reason it is good to have a few Justices who didn’t spend their childhoods thinking chaste thoughts [...]
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