Month: October 2007
Mukasey’s Secret Warrants Allowed Muslim Roundups After 9/11
LARA JAKES JORDAN, AP As the chief federal trial judge in Manhattan, Michael Mukasey approved secret warrants allowing government roundups of Muslims in the days after the Sept. 11 attacks. Six years later, the man […]
Chertoff May Void Judge’s Order to Halt Border Fence
By Howard Fischer, The Arizona Daily Star The nation’s top security official may use his power to unilaterally trump a federal court order halting construction of a fence on a stretch of the Arizona-Mexico border. […]