On AlterNet: due process

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "due process"

Lieberman Preys on Voter Fears, Proposes Law to Preemptively Strip Citizenship from Terror Suspects

Liliana Segura, AlterNet. May 8, 2010.

Lieberman's latest assault on constitutional rights: a proposal to circumvent due process for U.S. citizens by conveniently stripping their citizenship.

Supreme Court Protects Immigrant Due Process Rights

Seth Freed Wessler, ColorLines RaceWire. April 4, 2010.

The ruling in Padilla v. Kentucky requires defense attorneys to accurately advise their non-citizen clients of the potential immigration consequences of pleading guilty to a crime.

Obama to Continue Bush Policy of Searching Travelers' Personal Effects Without Cause

Susan Wallace, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. August 28, 2009.

But fear not -- more oversight!

Holder: Indefinite Detention Will Include Measures Of Due Process

Sam Stein, Huffington Post AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. June 17, 2009.

Holder declined to detail how and where such appeals could take place, telling members of Congress that such specifics had yet to be agreed upon.

The New Jim Crow: Sham Trials the Norm for Mexicans in Arizona

Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez, New America Media. January 19, 2009.

Every day, of the 1,000 migrants apprehended in Arizona, 70 are "randomly" selected and processed like cattle through Tucson's federal court.

Suspected Illegal Immigrants Deported Without Getting Their Day in Court

Tara Tidwell Cullen, National Immigrant Justice Center. June 10, 2008.

Due process is a vitally important tenet of liberal democracy.

Undocumented Immigrants Face Abuses, Un-American Treatment in Detention

Cristina Jimenez, Drum Major Institute. May 13, 2008.

It really shouldn't matter what one's opinion about the larger immigration question is -- these are basic issues of human rights.

Readers Write: What Have We Learned from the Vick Case?

AlterNet Staff, AlterNet. August 30, 2007.

AlterNet readers respond to the Vick controversy and talk about the confluence of race, animal rights, masculinity, and questions of fairness and due process.

American sentenced to death in Iraq [VIDEO]

Evan Derkacz, AlterNet: Video. October 25, 2006.

U.S. Military officers interfered...