No Due Process at Gitmo
Last week, a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., invalidated a plea agreement for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who has been incarcerated at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for 20 years. Mohammed has been charged with conspiracy to commit mass murder in...
See the Artworks That Explore the Forgotten History of Harriet Tubman’s Civil War Triumphs
Tubman’s 1863 raid, which destroyed seven plantations along the Combahee River in South Carolina and freed 756 enslaved laborers, is now the subject of an exhibition in Charleston On the moonlit night of June 2, 1863, Harriet Tubman and 300 Union soldiers, many of...
The Justice Department Whistleblower
“If they can do this sort of thing to Abrego Garcia, to 238 people that nobody knows, and send them to CECOT forever with no due process, they can do that to anyone,” Erez Reuveni, a former Justice Department lawyer who has filed a whistleblower complaint...
News From Around the South, 7/7 to 7/14
SOUTH CAROLINA: This Day in History: July 10, 2015: Confederate flag removed from SC State House grounds COLUMBIA, SC (WCSC) – The Confederate Battle flag was removed from the South Carolina State House grounds in 2015, weeks after a shooting at a Charleston...Obiter Dicta
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SOUTH CAROLINA: ‘Just wonderful’: USC musicians perform at Congaree National Park for country’s 250th birthday In a celebration of American music, the student performers also hoped to introduce more people Read More