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Supreme Court to Take Up PATRIOT Act With Review of Humanitarian Aid Case

Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now!. October 1, 2009.

In its first review of the PATRIOT Act, the Court will rule on an anti-terror law outlawing any aid to groups on the State Department's list of terrorist groups.

The Questions Eric Holder Should Be Asked

The NationJanuary 15, 2009.

David Cole, Michael Ratner, John Nichols and others pose the questions the attorney general nominee should be asked at his confirmation hearing.

In Case of Extraordinary Rendition Victim Maher Arar, U.S. Gets Away with Torture

Center for Constitutional RightsJuly 1, 2008.

Citing national security, a federal court rules that Maher Arar, who was kidnapped at JFK and sent to Syria by the U.S., had no due process rights.