Remember the whole "Is he or isn't he?" brouhaha over Alito's membership in "Concerned Alumni for Princeton (CAP)?" With it's subsequent Mrs. Alito subtle moment in the sobby spotlight during the Alito confirmation hearings? The one that Sen. Lindsey Graham conveniently engineered to bring out the bad news about CAP's racist tendencies while attempting to make Alito look more sympathetic to the public, despite his creepy opening statement?

Outtake from Farenheit 9/11.No idea why, but this just makes me smile:The witnesses recently called by the special prosecutor, former government officials said, include the agency’s top officer in London and Porter J. Goss, who was C.I.A. director when the tapes were destroyed in November 2005. Destruction of evidence is not something you should just forgive and forget.

Muhammed Jawad's legal battles have stretched on for the last 7 years. For a boy who may have been as young as 12 when he was picked up on an Afghan battlefield, that must feel like an eternity in custody. He has grown up at Gitmo. ACLU had another day in court yesterday in the Jawad case, this time arguing that evidence in the case which was

Today, the less-heavily-redacted version of the CIA IG report on torture and interrogation techniques during the Bush Administration is due for release.  Unless, of course, there is yet another delay.

ACSBlog has a series of discussions about the Ricci case and underlying labor law and the changes that Kennedy's majority opinion brought to the mix which I thought might be of interest to readers. I especially found Sharon Ifill's essay helpful. For my money, the Ricci case takes aim square at Griggs v.

Where the law is subject to some other authority and has none of its own, the collapse of the state, in my view, is not far off; but if law is the master of the government and the government is its slave, then the situation is full of promise and men enjoy all the blessings that the gods shower on a state.And thus was stated by Plato the general theory underlying

Last Friday's news dump included the disturbing rumor that the Obama Administration is considering an executive order for indefinite detention of detainees is US custody. Considering how opposed I was to this during the Bush years? It should be no shocker that I still think it's craptastically unconstitutional nincompoopery.

In case anyone is wondering why I've been dogging the Dawn Johnsen OLC nomination for months and months on end? Why restoration of the rule of law and having real leadership in place at OLC rather than a temporary staffing limbo is so important to me? Wonder no more: NPR’s report this morning that the Brookings Institution’s Benjamin Wittes has proposed what’s expected to be a highly

Somewhere in the last few weeks, the Beltway stupor has begun to lift on obstructionist tactics.  Sort of. When even Norm Ornstein raises his eyes from the muck and sees a need for finger wagging, you know there's been some sternly worded chatter over manchego and port in Georgetown.

Via Murray Waas, writing at The Hill, we have at long last fresh news on the Rick Renzi corruption case in Arizona. As you will recall, Renzi's indictment was a critical prong in the greater US Attorney firing scandal, specifically as to Arizona US Attorney Paul Charlton.