John Bellinger, the legal adviser to the Department of State, will testify and be asked questions about the Bush Administration’s practice of extreme rendition, in which prisoners in United States custody are knowingly sent to be interrogated by nations that routinely use torture.
You are probably not aware of it, but the Equal Rights Amendment did not die back in the 1980s. It has been brought back to the House of Representatives and to the Senate. Both the Senate and House versions of the proposed constitutional amendment state that: “Equality of rights under the law shall not be [...]
Many of these representatives are progressive Democrats, but some of them are right wing Republicans. Hank Johnson included people from both sides of the political spectrum because he realized that the human tragedy of the fighting in northern Uganda merited a unified approach that transcended domestic politics.
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