Justice has been discarded in favor of political expediency at Guantanamo, as Judge Patrick Parrish has allowed Omar Khadr’s confessions to be admitted into evidence in his military commission trial. Included among the confessions is one obtained by convicted torturer Joshua Claus under threat of rape and/or death for the then 15 year old suspect.

Lost in this heated debate about Arizona’s draconian law SB 1070, there is a truth that either people forget or refuse to address.

Human Rights First’s Daphne Eviatar covers the ongoing military commission case of Noor Muhammed while in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Graham continues to do what he can to block Guantanamo detainees from receiving trial in U.S. federal courts.

Our extranational shadow justice experiment has been a failure on virtually every level. The clear response would seem to be closing it, but circumstances inside the Beltway may trump the obvious.

For more on pruning back executive power see Pruning Shears.

A court ruling this week put new pressure on the administration to release seventeen noncombatatants held at Guantánamo. Their plight, and that of others similarly held, hint at the magnitude of the injustice there – and suggests why those responsible for it are so eager to keep them locked away.

For more on pruning back executive power see Pruning Shears.