Dahlia Lithwick on the new War Powers Commission and the new FISA revisions:Our war-powers problems lie not so much in the failure of checks and balances, but in the fact that Congress is invariably comfortable opposing wars only in hindsight. This might explain the fact...
the legislative ratification of the arbitrary executive
I have an article up at TAP about some of the implications of last week's Supreme Court landmark. One important thing is that progressives shouldn't cede the national security component.
Souter, concurring in Boumediene: It is in fact the very lapse of four years from the time Rasul put everyone on notice that habeas process was available to Guantanamo prisoners,.