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The AP reports:
The Supreme Court has ruled that teenagers may not be locked up for life without chance of parole if they haven’t killed anyone.
By a 5-4 vote Monday, the court says the Constitution requires that young people serving life sentences must at least be considered for release.
The court ruled in the case of Terrance Graham, who was implicated in …

In case you missed this, in a brief submitted to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday, May 13, the Obama Administration made an important statement about the applicability of the laws of war to the on-going “war on terror.” In Al-Bihani v. Obama, the D.C. Circuit upheld the decision of the District Court denying Al-Bihani’s petition for a …

8 Goals For Africa from 8 Goals For Africa on Vimeo.The ‘8 GOALS FOR AFRICA’ song is part of an awareness and advocacy campaign developed by the United Nations System in South Africa on the 8 MDGs.

From the Millennium Development Goals advocacy campaign by the UN in South Africa website:

End poverty by 2015 is the historic promise 189 world leaders …

State Department Foreign Affairs Day Celebration

Hillary Rodham Clinton
Secretary of State

Washington, DC

May 7, 2010

SECRETARY CLINTON: Oh, thank you. Thank you. (Applause.) Thank you. Thank you very much.
Oh, my goodness, well, it is absolutely a privilege for me to join all of you today and I’m delighted to see so many of you here for Foreign Affairs Day. You are among the …

My dear friend (for almost forty-years!), UCLA Law Professor Stephen Bainbridge has recently taken on many the unfortunate claims that the so-called Times Square Bomber, Faisal Shahzad, should not be given his Constitutional rights.  Here is his most recent post, which I re-post in its entirety, lest it lose its full effect:

Why not just torture the SOB?
The WSJ editorial board …

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The previous post reported and commented on Ambassador Mike Sheehan’s op-ed on the challenge of terrorism. Here is a recent video of an interview he did yesterday commenting on the Times Square Bomber in the wake of more recent information.

In case you missed it, Michael A. Sheehan had an excellent op-ed in the New York Times earlier this week on the challenge of “home grown” and “lone wolf” terrorism. Ambassador Sheehan served as the US Coordinator for Counterterrorism during the Clinton Administration and was Deputy Commissioner for Counterterrorism with the New York City Police– and, I might add, a …

Josh Rogin posts over at The Cable:
The White House is moving closer to finishing a sweeping review of U.S. development strategy that aims to put development on par with diplomacy and defense as a “central pillar” of U.S. national security, according to sources familiar with the issue.
The Cable has obtained a draft copy (pdf) of the review, which is titled …