‘We the People’ Loses Appeal With People Around the World
By ADAM LIPTAK
Published: February 6, 2012

RECOMMEND
TWITTER
LINKEDIN
COMMENTS(1191)
SIGN IN TO E-MAIL
PRINT

REPRINTS
SHARE

WASHINGTON — The Constitution has seen better days.

Enlarge This Image

Jae C. Hong/Associated Press
Occupy activists tested a float made with …

Omar Ha-Redeye
Canada Is the World’s Constitutional Superpower

We may not be the most wealthy nation in the world, or have the most powerful military. But when it comes to the legal influence of our constitution on …

Diab lawyer slams extradition order as ‘dangerous new low’

BY CHRIS COBB, THE OTTAWA CITIZEN APRIL 13, 2012

“I have never engaged in terrorism.” says 57-year-old professor Hassan Diab, “and I am not an anti-Semite. I am anxious …

Government asked Supreme Court to rule on warrantless GPS tracking

On April 15, 2011, the Obama administration petitioned the US Supreme Court for certiorari in the case of US v. Maynard in an appeal from an August 2010 decision in …

UN counterterrorism official criticizes US court decision on rendition information
Jaimie Cremeans at 2:04 PM ET

[JURIST] UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and counterterrorism Ben Emmerson [official profile] on Thursday expressed regret over a US court decision [press release] …

Canada high court rules emergency wiretap provision unconstitutional
Sung Un Kim at 1:21 PM ET

[JURIST] The Supreme Court of Canada [official website] ruled [judgment, PDF] Friday that an emergency wiretap [JURIST news achieve] provision allowing warrantless interceptions is unconstitutional. The …

American-Muslims sue federal agencies over improper religious questioning
Dan Taglioli at 12:54 PM ET

[JURIST] The Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations(CAIR-MI) [advocacy website] announced Friday the filing of a lawsuit [press release] against three US agencies over …

Taking Liberties:The War on Terror, Civil Liberties, and the American Courts
Maher Arar. Published on April 8, 2012
We have promised our readers and viewers that, should we receive at least 10 requests, we would be posting …

Facing release of personal information, Attaran files grievance against University of Ottawa administrator

BY ANDREW DUFFY, THE OTTAWA CITIZEN APRIL 4, 2012

21

STORY
PHOTOS ( 1 )

Amir Attaran, who has been a thorn in the side of the federal …

Does Posting Jihadist Material Make Tarek Mehanna a Terrorist?

How the outcome of Mehanna’s trial could rewrite the line between speech and crime.
By Adam Serwer on Fri. December 16, 2011 4:00 AM PDT

s_falkow/Flickr
Does posting militant videos …

Muslims on Wall Street, Bridging Two Traditions
By KEVIN ROOSE
NAIEL IQBAL’S co-workers couldn’t figure him out.
He’d just started at a Midtown Manhattan hedge fund — the kind of elite enclave where overachievers in button-downs go …

The Danger of Flying While Khan
By SRUTHI GOTTIPATI
Shah Rukh Khan, India’s Tom Cruise, got detained at an American airport.
Again.
Mr. Khan was held back by immigration officials for more than two hourswithout explanation at Westchester County Airport in …

Halal meat is more humane than factory meat

BY ZIYAAD MIA, VANCOUVER SUNMARCH 28, 2012
As the Parti Quebecois conflates imagined Islamist plots with feigned concerns for animal welfare, I wonder if Chicken Little is on the …

Chilling effect: Can N.J. Muslims (or anyone) challenge NYPD, other police in court?
by Frank Askin
Did someone once say, “Everything old is new again”? Anyway, that’s how I felt as I read about the New York …