6 CA upholds the warrantless wiretapping program 2-1...on standing grounds. Great; the prefect ruling for the age of Yoo. The secrecy of the arbitrary executive insulates even the illegal actions of the arbitrary executive from judicial scrutiny. Call me defeatist, but this also sounds like...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Of limited interest to those of you who aren't constitutional scholars and/or social scientists, but since I've had to read way too much of this literature thought I'd let you.
Many bloggers have already taken whacks at the non-argument, made by Alan Dershowitz and recycled by Marty Peretz, that the Libby conviction was a political conspiracy by conservative Republicans against.
To follow up on what Thoreau says here, it's remarkable that people like Ignatius fail to even consider the possibility that Americans won't just "pull together and take appropriate steps to prepare for future terrorist attacks on America" because people have serious substantive disagreements about...
With respect to the disgraceful Libby commutation, Laura of 11D provides some interesting data about how likely a petitioner not connected with the Bush administration is to get a pardon.
You will be happy to know that Libertas, home of Conservative Thought (sic) About Film (sic) has screened the latest Michael Bay joint and declared in free from wrongthink.Another amusing.
Fred Hiatt is the editorial page editor of The Washington Post.The Washington Post sums up the sharp rightward turn made inevitable by the judicial nominees whose confirmation they endorsed: "the outcome was simultaneously unsurprising and disappointing." I must admit I'm not sure why you would...
Sara, pointing to this emailer warning his long-suffering ex-girlfriend that she'll never find anyone who's just so darn nice about "jokingly" threatening physical abuse and sending pictures of his dick.
Movies by the two worst directors regularly given major American studio projects who aren't Joel Schumacher have recently opened. And yet, I think I would sit through either of their.
Romney ahead in New Hampshire. This reinforces my belief that the GOP race is basically between Romney and Thompson, and I'm not ready to hand things over to the latter yet.
On the issue of affirmative action and the alleged principled "originalism" of the Court's conservatives, Simon Lazurus has a very good summary:On the contrary, as legal and historical scholars --.
Thers makes a comparison.As I've mentioned before, I actually think that the narrow issue of not granting a pardon to Karla Faye Tucker (as opposed to his conduct afterward and.