Serwer: It doesn't of course -- Republicans arguing that Gitmo is open because Obama has recognized the wisdom of using the facility is like a bully stealing a kid's lunch money and then telling everyone he merely decided to make a shrewd investment. Gitmo is...
the arbitrary executive
Indefensible. I think it's worth noting as well that this isn't the case where there's a clash between civil liberties and compelling political interests -- the number of votes Obama.
Via Julian Sanchez, Julian Davis Mortenson does excellent decimation work on John Yoo's attempt to project his Schmittian views of executive power onto the framers and the Constitution. For the shorter version, Stephen Holmes's essay remains an eternal classic.
And he's proud of it! At least the pretense that the GOP actually opposed arbitrary and illegal torture is over...
Advocate for arbitrary torture attempts to engage in rational discourse, fails: What I want to note is that John Yoo knows that he is already on trial – not just.
Discussing the recent whining of Alberto Gonzales who, like Jay Bybee, wants it known that he's one of the real victims of the arbitrary torture regime he helped conceive of and implement, Dahlia Lithwick points out that according to reasonable, moderate, thinking man's advocate of...
Shorter Jay Bybee: "I'm very sorry. I'm sorry that there are some people out there who think that designing specious legal arguments in order to enable executive branch officials to.
The Supreme Court, to put it mildly, did not cover itself in glory this week when it refused to hear Maher Arar's appeal. (This is not to say that I.
Marc Thiessen. It would almost be funny to see such a classic example of ye old War on Analogy, except that when it's in defense of a torture regime you had a hand in perpetuating and justifying it's not remotely funny.
This gets it right. Obviously, trying to pose as defenders of the rule of law when you believe that the government needs to be doing a lot more arbitrary detention.
I suppose this is all a dog-bites-man story...