When I called it torture, I meant it. Imagine being sprayed with a concentrated dose of something more than ten times hotter than a habanero pepper, or nearly 1000 times hotter than a jalapeno pepper. Hence: We were never warned that we were going to...
civil liberties
"I don't think it's appropriate for me to resign at this moment," said UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi, after her decision to order peaceful protestors removed from campus had completely.
I'm about to take the worst kind of red-eye flight, i.e. the one that leaves at 6 so you don't get any sleep but it's morning when you land. But.
Litwhwick's depressing account of the oral arguments in Perry v. New Hampshire makes it pretty clear that the Supreme Court is disinclined to require any changes to how courts deal with eyewitness testimony despite extensive evidence that its unreliability is particularly likely to lead to...
Well, this is certainly surprising: On Tuesday, the justices will hear the case of Juan Smith, who was convicted of murdering five people here. The court will consider whether he.
When Lieberman, Lindsay, and St. McCain get together and develop detainee policy, I want to run screaming in the other direction. The ultimate double breasted trench coat and ladies winter.
Adam Liptak has a useful roundup of yesterday's oral argument in Florence v. Board of Chosen Freeholders of Burlington County. The case involves a blanket policy of strip searching people arrested for minor offenses. It is a classic case where Supreme Court intervention to...
Shorter Marc Thiessen: "Eric Holder is insufficiently committed to authoritarianism and arbitrary torture." This being Thiessen, the column is not only grotesquely immoral but contains (race-baiting!) howlers as well: This.
A good question from Charlie Savage's excellent account of the Awlaki killing: The memorandum is said to declare that in the case of a citizen, it is legally required to.
Michael Medved argues: "Nevertheless, Brewer met justice nine years more promptly than the African-American, Davis. In any just society, the race of the perpetrator—or victim—should have no bearing on the treatment of a killer." The rather obvious problem here is that Brewer was clearly guilty...
Two inmates have been exonerated and released after a combined 46 years in prison. But remember, if an appeals court upheld Troy Davis's conviction there is no possibility that he.
Looking into the latest case of petty-dictator school administrators ordering an arbitrary strip search of young women [via], I saw from one of the petty dictators in question: Dan Crozier,.