BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN America changed as the new year stumbled across the threshold, but the big shift didn’t get much press, which is easy to understand. Can there be a deader news day than a New Year’s Eve that falls on a weekend? Besides, alive or dead, habeas corpus has never been a topic to set news editors on fire. The change came with the whisper of Barack Obama’s pen, as he signed into law […]

Goodbye, Habeas Corpus
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