Over the weekend, six of the remaining 13 Uighurs in Guantánamo – Muslims from China's Xinjiang province – were released to resume new lives in the tiny Pacific nation of Palau (population: 20,000). I have written at length about the plight of...
Uighurs Deserve Legal Remedy
Ubi jus ibi remedium. Probably nothing turns readers off more than starting a column with some incomprehensible Latin phrase. But this one's relevant. It means: Where there is a right, there is a remedy. When a legal wrong has been done, the courts should be able to...
Obama Maintains Bush Policies on Gitmo Uighurs
Last Thursday, while most U.S. media outlets were focused relentlessly on the marathon endurance test that was Sonia Sotomayor's Supreme Court confirmation hearing, the House Foreign Affairs Committee's Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights, and...
Free the Guantánamo Uighurs!
On Friday, court-watchers received some deeply depressing news – 33 pages of unconstitutional hogwash directed at the Supreme Court by President Obama's Justice Department [.pdf], in which no stone of dubious legality was left unturned in the administration's...