Author: Scott Lemieux
The more that's known about Yoo, Bybee and the Bush administration's arbitrary torture regime, the better.
This is, of course, right. Once a bill has enough votes to pass how many people vote for it shouldn't matter, and it will be an inevitable effect of having.
Given that it was always a pretty terrible idea, better now than later.
Shorter Verbatim Wan Juilliams: "Michelle Obama, you know, she's got this Stokely Carmichael in a designer dress thing going."NPR's Ombudsman, in response, asserts that Williams is "now paid to give.
For one last go-round, I'll respond to a couple of the creative attempts in comments to justify essentially indefensible life tenure for judges. Essentially, all of these arguments are "largely.
I have some thoughts about Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Supreme Court tenure over at Comment Is Free.
Shorter Bryan Stevenson: "First, the Yankees don't believe that African-Americans should be enslaved. Then, they don't believe that women should be enslaved. Always the aggressors!"
Sandy Levinson makes the argument again. Before I get to some potential objections, I think a couple points should be emphasized. First, it's abundantly clear that life tenure is in.