MONROVIA, Sept. 28 -- When the Monrovia City Court issued a writ on August 25, 2026, commanding police to "arrest the living bodies" of Jewel Howard-Taylor, it set in motion one of the most consequential criminal cases against a former senior official in Liberia's recent history.

By Rodney D. Sieh

A month later, the former Vice President sits under house arrest, her bail application denied, her phones and computers seized, and her lawyers argue that nearly every step the State has taken against her has run afoul of the Constitution.

In a formal statement, her legal team lists what it calls a "cumulative constitutional injury": ten separate points at which, they contend, Mrs. Howard-Taylor's liberty was taken or restricted without full ...