If Rahm Emanuel is actually deciding what sort of trial KSM et. al. should get on the basis of what he calculates would be most politically convenient for the Obama administration, then the only honorable thing for Eric Holder to do is to resign. It's...
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A friend of mine was telling me today that the US Attorney's office in Denver has just hired several fairly high-ranking Department of Justice lawyers as Assistant US Attorneys. What's.
Lederman: "It is an extraordinarily thorough, scholarly and thoughtful opinion -- surely one of the best opinions ever written on questions relating to executive/congressional disputes. It is also, IMHO, correct.
Is a truism that everyone remembers some of the time, and everyone seems to forget some of the time. Yglesias on cock fighting bans:But should cockfighting really be banned? This doesn't seem like a very nice way to treat animals, I'm skeptical that this is...
Hmm, this doesn't seem promising for the chances of disgraced reactionary media magnate Conrad Black's appeal succeeding:When Andrew Frey, Lord Black's lawyer, tried to explain how prosecutors misapplied a legal.
Lawrence Lessig makes a convincing case.
Responding to a WaPo editorial suggesting that Obama offer a Supreme Court appointment to Hillary Clinton, Mori Dinauer interestingly points out that such an offer would seem to be illegal. Does anybody know if there are examples of someone actually being prosecuted under the statute?...