Rachel Browning’s Legal Blog

In his campaign for the presidency, President Barack Obama vowed to promote policies that would reform our nation’s immigration system comprehensively, those that focused not just on border security, but reforms that would “bring people out of the shadows,” keep families together and remove the various hurdles that encourage people to enter and remain in [...]

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There has been a lot of discussion in the media recently about the issues of torture, “enhanced interrogation techniques” and other detention policies undertaken by the Bush Administration to deal with suspected al Qaida terrorists.  While the debate has centered on whether those who allegedly participated in torture should face prosecution, there is a larger [...]

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On 4/2/09, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law and the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties held a joint hearing titled “Public Safety and Civil Rights Implications of State and Local Enforcement of Federal Immigration Laws,” in which it heard testimony from various citizens, [...]

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            A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about President Obama’s issuance of an Executive Order calling for the closure of the detention facilities in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where approximately 245 individuals remain,  all of whom were brought there and held as “enemy combatants” by the Bush Administration.  But what has yet to be determined, [...]

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In a continuation of the topic I began in my previous post on the Obama Administration, I turn now to the issue of the fate of detainees at Guantánamo Bay and what President Obama has proposed to do about their status and the status of the detention facility itself.
 
Yesterday, President Obama issued a draft of [...]

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