A call to reverse security measures
Ralph Nader, LL.B. ’58, and Bruce Fein, J.D. ’72, visited Harvard Law School (HLS) for a talk sponsored by the HLS Forum and the Harvard Law Record. At the event, both men discussed what they called lawless and violent practices by the White House and its agencies that have become institutionalized by both political parties. Fein has held positions in the Department of Justice and has served as research director for Republicans on the Joint Congressional Committee on Covert Arms Sales to Iran and on the American Bar Association’s Committee on Presidential Signing Statements. During the talk, which was called “America’s Lawless Empire: The Constitutional Crimes of Bush and Obama,” Fein gave examples of what he called constitutional crimes perpetrated under the Barack Obama and George W. Bush administrations, such as detaining enemy combatants indefinitely, diverting funds authorized for fighting terrorism to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and using predator drones...