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About emptywheel
Marcy Wheeler is an independent journalist writing about national security and civil liberties. She writes as emptywheel at her eponymous blog, publishes at outlets including Vice, Motherboard, the Nation, the Atlantic, Al Jazeera, and appears frequently on television and radio. She is the author of Anatomy of Deceit, a primer on the CIA leak investigation, and liveblogged the Scooter Libby trial.
Marcy has a PhD from the University of Michigan, where she researched the “feuilleton,” a short conversational newspaper form that has proven important in times of heightened censorship. Before and after her time in academics, Marcy provided documentation consulting for corporations in the auto, tech, and energy industries. She lives with her spouse in Grand Rapids, MI.
Entries by emptywheel
Obama in Flint, MI
/73 Comments/in 2008 Presidential Election/by emptywheelHello everyone. I’m blogging from Flint, MI, where Obama will hold a town hall starting at 12EST. The town hall will be a big unity event–with some of our Congressional delegation and other top officials joining Obama to unify the Democratic Party. This follows our State Central Committee meeting–which was held Saturday–at which the same message of unity was emphasized.
The Rule of Law Prevailed
/152 Comments/in Law/by emptywheelI’m just getting off a conference call with the Center for Constitutional Rights, one of the organizations that has been pushing for Habeas at Gitmo for years. Gita Gutierrez, one of the CCR lawyers that’s been fighting this fight the longest, said of the ruling that “unambiguously the rule of law prevailed.”
Here’s some of what they believe the opinion to mean:The 40 to 60 people who have already been determined
Happy Habeas Day
/91 Comments/in Law/by emptywheelApparently, Anthony Kennedy understands a few things about the Constitution that many seem to have forgotten.
The laws and Constitution are designed to survive, and remain in force, in extraordinary times.
Which means the detainees in Gitmo and elsewhere will have their day in a real court, not the Show Trials put together at Gitmo.
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay have rights under the Constitution to