The text of Senator Dodd's bill, which I mentioned last week. And if you haven't followed the changes the MCA made to the law, here's a discussion of how the MCA changed the law and the effect Dodd's bill would have on specific provisions of the MCA. As one of the comments points out, the only thing the bill doesn't address is the MCA provisions ( Read more... )

Senator Dodd proposes the Effective Terrorists Prosecution Act; this would restore our right to habeus corpus as well as undoing some of the worst excesses of the Military Commissions Act/Torture Bill. I don't know how successful this legislation is likely to be, but I applaud Senator Dodd for introducing it. Please write your Senators and tell ( Read more... )