Shorter Bush administration: "Indirectly punishing partisan opponents is more important than effectively opposing terrorism." (Via Atrios.)
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Who else but Stuart Taylor? His argument seems to be that the best remedy for illegal acts of torture is to assure that (apart from some isolated low-level "bad apple".
This really is bad.
Well, it's certainly reassuring to see that the author of transparently ridiculous arguments on behalf of an unlimited right for the executive to arbitrarily detain and torture individuals at its.
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, and the lapse of six years since some of these prisoners were captured and incarcerated,...
Poor Fredo. In related news, see Gene Healy on John Yoo and the Neoconstitution.
Although Yoo certainly deserves all of the criticism he's getting today and far more, it's also important to remember that his analysis only meant something because he was telling the.
The Yoo torture memos have finally been declassified. Emily Bazelon cites their "glib certainty," which is part of it. But this would be potentially acceptable if its arguments were more plausible and the implausibilities weren't in service of such reprehensible ends. It's one thing to,...
President Bush, as most of you know, has used his veto powers sparingly. But on some issues -- like more poor children getting health care -- he simply can't avoid.
Julian Sanchez is probably right that in order to refute Andy McCarthy's claim that the Sixth Circuit rejecting the ACLU's standing to sue over the the Bush administration's wireless wiretapping.