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If You Read About Politics, You Should Read These Guys: Greenwald and Friedersdorf

Between my first year of law school and two young children, I have really cut down on the amount of media I read in a given day. I tend to follow a pattern of checking the headlines at the New York Times, and then looking to see if any members of the Supreme Court [...]

The End of Liberty? Obama Plans To Enshrine Indefinite Detention Into Law

Shon R. Hopwood2019-03-18T18:47:49-05:00December 23rd, 2011|Tags: Andrew Sullivan, Due Process, Glenn Greenwald, indefinite detention, National Defense Authorization Act, Salon|

Call me old-fashioned but I still believe the primary role of government is to protect our liberty. The Framers believed this was the government’s role and it was for quite some time. But if protecting liberty is the primary goal of government then with passage of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act, government has become [...]