Balko makes the case.
civil liberties
Armando, like several commenters, isolates this passage in the Jeffrey Rosen op-ed I blogged about yesterday and uses it to reject the entire analysis:Mr. Obama . . . is not.
I don't agree with every particular of the argument -- it's a little problematic to tie Hillary Clinton too strongly with her husband's administration (granting that much of the tying.
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 (and then the Supreme Court rejecting the appeal) demonstrates that the program is constitutional on...
I cringe whenever I see that the Roberts Court is taking a case like this:In theory, a criminal-law doctrine known as the exclusionary rule forbids prosecutors from using evidence obtained.
Clinton and Obama to vote against cloture on the awful FISA legislation. Good. The two presidential candidates have the potential to be a serious counterwieght to the terrible job Reid.
I'm generally pretty lenient in evaluating Congressional leadership, especially in the Senate. Sometimes, Reid will get heat for not making votes he doesn't have materialize out of thin air. But as has been widely noted, trying to steamroller filibusters of bad legislation by members of...
I'm appalled that a young liberal writer would be so squishy about the kind of Tough Measures needed to stop the Icelandofascist Menace. Stop them before they support Matthew Barney's.
The New Jersey legislature has voted to abolish the death penalty, and Corzine says that he will sign the bill. Good. Some death penalty supporters will undoubtedly mention that a.
I'm guessing Bean will have more to say about this, but the Supreme Court today held in a 7-2 decision that lower court judges are permitted not to apply federal sentencing guidelines (including, in this case, guidelines that mandate much harsher sentences for trafficking crack...
I agree with Jim Henley and Roy Edroso that the complaint filed in federal and provincial human rights commissions against Mark Steyn is a dangerous threat to free speech. Not.
Unfortunately, other professional responsibilities have prevented me from reading the full transcripts yet, so I've only heard the highlights so far (I'll have more when I read them in full.).