Chisun Lee
Chisun Lee was a reporter at ProPublica.
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Chisun Lee was a reporter at ProPublica. Her coverage of Guantanamo and terrorism-related detention problems won a 2010 Overseas Press Club Award for general excellence and was honored by the American Bar Association. She was a staff writer at the Village Voice for five years, where her reporting on civil liberties issues garnered a Crystal Gavel Award from the New York State Bar Association in 2003 and a 2004 New York Press Club award. A graduate of Harvard Law School and a former Knight Journalism Fellow at Yale Law School, Lee served as a law clerk for a federal district judge in New York. For a year she worked as a staff attorney at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law.
As Gitmo Detainees’ Legal Victories Mount, Obama Administration Resists Orders to Release
The government is failing in many cases to prove that the men it has imprisoned at Guantanamo belong there. But in spite of court findings that the prisoners are being held unlawfully, the administration insists it is not obligated to free them.
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'Deem and Pass' Unlikely to Be Reversed in Courts, Experts Say
The possibility that the House would use a tactic known as "deem and pass" to pass the Senate's health care bill without actually voting on the bill raises the question of whether the measure is constitutional or subject to overturning by the Supreme Court.
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Higher Corporate Spending on Election Ads Could Be All but Invisible
The Supreme Court may have allowed corporations to spend more freely on election ads, but if they do, there's practically no way to track who is spending what for -- or against -- whom, because it's easy for companies to hide behind nonprofits like the Chamber of Commerce.
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Judge Who Ordered Release of Uighurs Rules for Another Gitmo Detainee
Saeed Hatim, a Yemeni citizen who has been imprisoned at Guantanamo for seven years, is being held unlawfully and should be freed, Judge Ricardo Urbina has ruled. Urbina's earlier ruling ordering the release of a group of Uighur prisoners is still awaiting action by the Supreme Court.
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