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...Efforts to win new legislation failed early this year, when leaders in the state Senate refused to hold hearings on a bill that would have set him free. In an op-ed he must surely regret now, Senate President Pro Tem Eric Johnson defended the legislature's failure to act. "Life comes with accountability for our decisions. Genarlow Wilson could have selected different friends to hang with...
...that symbolic occasion, the Senate chose to retain a provision of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 (MCA) that prevents Guantanamo Bay inmates from challenging their detention in court. This de facto suspension of habeas corpus applies to foreign aliens as well as U.S. permanent residents, to those who have committed hostile acts as well as many who have not. Most frighteningly, it applies to detainees against whom military prosecutors lack enough evidence to classify as enemy combatants—but who may nonetheless be kept in Guantanamo limbo indefinitely...
...limit on government power, ignoring how intimately tied it is to the respect for human dignity. To lock someone in a cell as a criminal without giving him a chance to confront his accusers, to see the evidence presented against him, and to plead his case is an indefensible act of cruelty. Most of us would not (and do not) tolerate that treatment even for alleged rapists and murderers...
...long as we cling to any particular notion of what “learned men” ought to know or how they ought to act, we exclude the diversity of undergraduates who beg to differ. Striving to breed an army of investment bankers unencumbered by a clear set of values and a basic understanding of the society in which they live is, after all, much more politically correct. With the passage of our new undergraduate curriculum, the Faculty have finally woken up to what any good relativist could have told you decades ago: Harvard’s curriculum...
...Arroyo painted the pardon, announced Thursday evening, as both an act of mercy and an attempt to bridge the country's deep political fissures. Speaking to a business conference in Manila, she called Estrada's trial and imprisonment "a cause of distraction, recrimination and intrigue." Pardoning Estrada, she added, will promote national reconciliation...