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Rep. Linda Sánchez  makes a good case for it: (more…)

The precipice down which we stare — feet clinging to constitutional democracy, eyes staring at the final step into fascism — became ever-so-slightly less beckoning yesterday. The Supreme Court decided, by a 5-4 vote, that

Foreign terrorism suspects held at the Guantánamo Bay naval base in Cuba have constitutional rights to challenge their detention there in United States courts…

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And this development was not considered?

The pattern has become familiar: Customs officers wave in vehicles filled with illegal immigrants, drugs or other contraband. A Border Patrol agent acts as a scout for smugglers. Trusted officers fall prey to temptation and begin taking bribes. (more…)

Of all the arguments against the death penalty, the hardest to prove has been that it is biased based upon the defendant’s race. Not any more.  (more…)

Well, I’m not a lawyer, and I don’t have one on retainer to answer impetuous questions, so I went to Ask A Lawyer and found this. (more…)

Boy, I’ll bet George W. Bush is chuckling today.

You’d think it was a bad week for him. First the news comes out that the most senior members of his administration met in the White House regularly to decide how to torture whom. (more…)

Yesterday I noted a chilling and under-reported story carried by the NY Times to the effct that a) Michael Chertoff has been granted godlike powers by Congress, and b) the rationale for this — “security over all” — is eerily dictatorial. (more…)

There’s this quaint little theory Dick Cheney nurtured in his grinch-sized heart ever since his benefactor and hero Richard Nixon gave a final wave from his the taxpayers’ helicopter: the theory of the unitary executive. Like a previous generation that sang “Save your confederate money, boys/The South shall rise again,”  young Dickie saved the shards of his Watergate-shattered theory until the pieces could be put together again. (more…)

John McCain marked the solemn 40th anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. today…

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This question has nagged at me for 40 years: How does a two-bit prison escapee get from Memphis to London all by himself? And if the answer is, “he doesn’t,” then justice has been delayed and therefore denied for 40 years. If a hit team got away with murdering Martin Luther King, Jr., similar teams can get away with the same kind of crime today. (more…)