Naturally, Robin Givhan must do an essay on what Nancy Pelosi wore in Syria and what the Iranians made the British sailors wear, and just as naturally, I must blog about it: [Each scarf she wore] was incorporated into the day…
Linda Greenhouse has a theory about yesterday's cert. denial in Guantanamo detainees cases (Boumediene v. Bush and Al Odah v. United States). Noting that Justice Stevens declined to vote along with Justices Souter, Ginsburg,…
"Former Pages Describe [Rep. Mark] Foley as a Caring Ally," the NYT reports : Ashley Gallo, a 21-year-old former page who is now a senior at Western Michigan University, said on Sunday that many of her friends had view…
Over at Volokh Conspiracy, where commenters had complained about the lack of posts about the detainees bill, Orin Kerr and Ilya Somin have blogged about why they haven't blogged. This is one of the biggest problems for a la…
A reader emails: A few weeks back you mentioned in passing that audio of Supreme Court arguments are available at www.oyez.org In the context you seemed to imply that they would be of interest mainly to lawyers. I went and downl…
A federal judge has resigned from his position on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court: [U.S. District Judge James] Robertson indicated privately to colleagues in recent conversations that he was concerned that informatio…
Ouch. Can we refrain from using torture metaphors when we're actually talking about torture ? I mean cruel and inhumane treatment metaphors when we're actually talking about cruel and inhumane treatment .... That quote i…