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: The Gavel

Thursday Media Report

By Raheem Dawodu

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GUANTANAMO BAY DETAINEES/COURTS

Free Speech Radio News: Courts decide Guantanamo detainees are not “persons” under US law (w/audio)
12/15/2009

Miami Herald: Federal judge orders 32nd detainee freed from Guantánamo
CAROL ROSENBERG – 12/16/2009

National Review Online: Gitmo Does Not Cause Terrorism
Andrew C. McCarthy – 12/17/2009

Washington Independent: Gitmo Habeas Scoreboard
12/16/2009

PATRIOT ACT REFORM

Main Justice: Patriot Act Reauthorization To Be Pushed Back
Andrew Ramonas: 12/16/2009

Wired/Threat Level: House Delays Patriot Act Spy Vote
David Kravets – 12/16/2009

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/SURVEILLANCE

NY Times: Intelligence Improperly Collected on U.S. Citizens
CHARLIE SAVAGE and SCOTT SHANE – 12/16/2009

FEDERAL JOURNALIST SHIELD LAW

Philadelphia Inquirer: Shielding the truth
Editorial – 12/17/2009

FindLaw: The Federal Media Shield Bill, Anonymity, and the Definition of a Journalist
JULIE HILDEN- 12/16/2009

IMMIGRATION/DETENTION

Houston Chronicle/AP: Feds revising asylum detention policies
SUZANNE GAMBOA – 12/16/2009

MARRIAGE EQUALITY/COURTS

LA Times/L.A. Now: Appeals court to vote on new hearing in Proposition 8 challenge
Carol J. Williams – 12/16/2009

STATE COURTS STAFFING

Maryland Daily Record: Federal court won?t block mandatory retirement of judge, 70
Steve Lash – 12/16/2009

New Orleans Times-Picayune: Special election set to fill vacancy on the state court bench in Gretna to replace Joan Benge
Paul Purpura – 12/16/2009

STATE COURTS/BUDGETS

Detroit Free Press: Judicial plan has merit
Editorial – 12/17/2009

BILL OF RIGHTS

LA Times: A bill of rights — then, and now
Jonathan Estrin and Marshall Croddy – 12/15/2009

Full post as published by The Gavel on December 17, 2009 (boomark / email).

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