Damn, damn and double damn. Somebody noticed that people, regular people (not just us lawyers and maybe some reporters--but goddamn dirty F****** hippies) were using the Internet to follow what is going on in criminal cases; and they are considering putting a stop to all that. Back in the old days, the only way to access a case file was to physically go into the courthouse, sign out the file from the

At YKos, this morning's Libby Trial Panel was a special treat, much like last year's Plame Panel that Jane organized. Today's panel was chaired by Jeralyn Merritt and included our Christy and the inimitable Marcy (emptywheel) as well as Sheldon (Shelly) Snook. Snook is the Federal District Court media coordinator who made all the media arrangements that allowed the bloggers to cover the Libby trial.

Hear Ye, Hear Ye, the Yearly Kos Scooter Libby Live-Blogging Panel will soon be in session.If you are attending Yearly Kos in Chicago, it's time to mark your calendars for opening day, August 2. You won't want to miss your esteemed hostess Christy Hardin-Smith and indispensable FDL contributor Marcy Wheeler of The Next Hurrah provide their behind-the-scenes look at live-blogging the perjury and obstruction of justice trial of I.

I mentioned this below, but it is worth discussing this a bit more fully.  In the Gellman and Becker piece on Dick Cheney today, Tim Flanigan is mentioned as someone at the DOJ taking the Vice President's side of legal interpretation.  Scarecrow pointed out this particular passage as illustrative of Flanigan's relationship with the Cheney position:Over the next 12 months, Congress and the Supreme Court imposed many of the restrictions that