Take My Kids, Please!
Every time I’m involved in a custody case, I wonder why the woman doesn’t gladly give the kid over…
The Indypendent
Ann M. Schneider
Dispatch from Wisconsin: ‘Whose House? Our House!’
Half-melted snowmen still held union picket signs on the grounds of the Wisconsin State Capitol building when I arrived…
A Crack Opens in Drug Law Sentencing
Twenty-three years after this country began its disastrous experiment with mandatory federal guidelines for sentencing, what has been obvious…
Court Rejects Bush’s Tortured Logic
The People’s Lawyer, a project of the National Lawyers Guild NYC By Ann Schneider The Bush administration’s attempts to…
Liberty Lost: Frightened Congress Gives Bush Unprecedented Powers
Facing mid-term elections, both houses of Congress adopted the Military Commissions Act of 2006 in September, permanently repealing habeas…
Sentencing Lynne Stewart, Terror Scapegoat
Activist attorney Lynne Stewart could receive as much as 30 years in prison on Oct. 16 when she is…