Fifth Amendment

The 10 Best Bars in Park Slope Not Yet Ruined by Babies

The weather is warming up nicely and it's time to stop drinking at home and get to the bar. But lately, many doorways of our favorite watering holes have been blocked. Not by passed out winos or vomit but by, of all things, baby strollers. Bucking the boozy agreement to leave young-ins at home, ma ... More >>

U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Hears Arguments in NDAA Battle (We Barely Could)

It sounded like a panel of Federal Appeals Court judges drilled lawyers with a barrage of questions yesterday during a hearing of oral arguments in the high-profile lawsuit against the Obama administration over the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act. Of course, that's a bit tough to confirm c ... More >>

Just Because It's My Brooklyn Doesn't Mean It Can't Be Yours

On Saturday afternoon, Rerun Theater at Rebar was full. It seemed only fitting that even the name of the place is a do-over, its chairs the back seats from old minivans--and not just because Rerun is a venue for post-film festival movies that don't yet have distributors. Today the theater was screen ... More >>

Obama's NDAA Law Allowing Indefinite Military Detention of Citizens Ruled Unconstitutional

The Obama administration's efforts to enshrine sweeping 9/11-era rollbacks of civil liberties and constitutional rights as federal law hit a serious roadblock yesterday, as a federal judge struck down clauses of the National Defense Authorization Act as unconstitutional. The offending section of th ... More >>

The Voice Lives!

NDAA Suit Argued In Federal Court Yesterday

The question being argued in federal court in Lower Manhattan yesterday boiled down to this: Is a law authorizing the indefinite military detention of American citizens with only the barest recourse to civil courts constitutional? The lawsuit against the Obama administration was filed in January by ... More >>

New York Civil Liberties Union: Queens DA Uses 'Unconstitutional' Interrogation Tactics

If you get arrested in Queens, you might get interrogated before being arraigned or meeting with a lawyer -- a practice which the New York Civil Liberties Union has decried as "unconstitutional" and "unethical" in a legal brief filed today against the borough's District Attorney. The NYCLU claims t ... More >>

Eric Schneiderman, NY Attorney General, Argues Against DOMA

​New York's attorney general is working to prove the federal Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional. AG Eric Schneiderman filed a brief today, the New York Times reports, supporting Edith Windsor, who is suing the United States because the federal government would not recognize her Canadian ... More >>

Jadakiss Makes Menacing Kissy Noises

Bad romance on I Love You

Nick Brooks, Accused SoHo Strangler, Doesn't Really Get That "Right to Remain Silent" Thing

​Nick Brooks, the 24-year-old accused of strangling his swimsuit designer girlfriend and leaving her body in a SoHo House bathtub, is afraid of going to jail. And can't shut up about it. The Daily News has some quotes from his arraignment and court records that suggest he probably should take his ... More >>

The Feds Bury Border Patrol Abuses of Immigrants, But What's Been Unearthed Reveals a Culture of Cruelty

Tom DiNapoli's Appointment Logs: He's Just Too Nice a Guy

​Tom DiNapoli is too nice a guy. The state comptroller apparently can't say no to anyone who wants to meet with him, though he has a mixed record when it comes to delivering what his bellringers want. I've been reading half a foot of DiNapoli's appointment schedules from 2007 to now an ... More >>

Grinding Justice

Operation Streamline Costs Millions, Tramples the Constitution, Treats Migrants Like Cattle, and Doesn't Work

Judge to Military on 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell': Halt!

For all their dithering around "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" over the past two years, President Obama and Congress have been let off the hook. No need to finish off that survey to see how the troops feel about serving with the gays, because federal judge Virginia Phillips has halted all discharges under ... More >>

Attorney General Candidate Dan Donovan's Messy Backyard

The A.G. candidate vowing to clean up Albany missed a mess back home

Anything Goes at NYC's Bizarro World Elections Board

The Barely Legal Empire of Tony Alamo

The nutty evangelist rebuilds his young-girl-lovin' empire—with help from New Yorkers

Bloomberg Wants to Get in Your Genes

Compared to the present mayor’s contempt for civil liberties, Giuliani was a piker

The Truth Behind Troopergate

A capital melodrama starring Eliot Spitzer, Joe Bruno and Andrew Cuomo

Twisted Spitzer

Note to good-guy governor-elect: 10 reasons to stay Hevesi’s execution

A Hevesi Heresy

Daring to doubt the governor's wisdom

Rabbis Against Torture

Invoking centuries of Jewish law, hundreds of American rabbis confront Bush

Kerik Cops a Sweet Plea

The guy Giuliani and Bush picked to protect us gets a rap sheet

'Times' to Commoners: Go Elsewhere

Don't soil our publicly subsidized new HQ with your riff-raff

Dems Begin Digging into Bush Court Nominee

Hard Time for Harding

Porn, coke, and embezzlement: A former Giuliani aide's shameful path to prison

Letters

I'd Leave the Country, but My Wife Won't Let Me

Bush Takes Aim at My American Family

A Dirty Cop at the Top

Pataki's Police Czar Penetrates Federal Probe of Gov's Campaign

The Once and Former Rule of Law

Could Ashcroft Pass a Quiz on the Constitution?

Alt-Press Gets Nailed

Slam-Dunk Antitrust Case—or Power Grab?

Things We Lost in the Fire

While the Ruins of the World Trade Center Smoldered, the Bush Administration Launched an Assault on the Constitution

An Immodest Proposal

Success Has Gotten Us Where We Are. Why Not Try Failure?

Staring Debt in the Face

Hapless Military Personnel Are Ordered to Use Plastic, Get Dunned by the Pentagon

Island in the Schemes

John Gotti's Ghost Haunts Staten Island Pols

The Louima Prosecutor

Pataki and D'Amato's Pick Is Unqualified and Tainted

Nation

En-Rot

Enron Is the Largest Corporate Bankruptcy in American History. Get It?

Remembering the L.A. 8

The INS and Its Critics Take Lessons From a Relentless Pursuit of Immigrants

Nation

The Trouble With Harry

Pataki’s Wannabe Cop Gets Nailed

Libertarian Belle

Gale Norton Rings in an America Where Polluters Police Themselves and Environmentalists Go Extinct

Project Girls

Five Veterans of the City’s Public Housing Tell Their Tales

Sue the Messenger, Part Two

In 2000 the Media Takes It From All Sides

When Worlds Collide

Eerie Prospects After Bombing

A Snitch in Time

The Case Against Hate-Crime Laws

Federalizing Hate Crimes Will Increase Double Jeopardy

The Lewinsky Affair

Whose story is it anyway?