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  • Failure to Admit Blagojevich Appointee to Senate Big Mistake

    Failure to Admit Illinois Governor Blagojevich's Appointee, the eminently qualified and well reputed Roland Burris, to the United States Senate will prove to be a supremely Big Mistake made by the Democratic Senate Leadership and yes, Barack Obama. News today is that the U.S. Senate will seat 59 Democratic Senators, including their Candidate ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by MichaelBernard3 on January 5, 2009

  • Dahlia Lithwick Uses Recipes to Write a Legal Column About..

    ... ABORTION. Lithwick's very idea that women do not have reproductive choice, if they cannot extinquish the life growing in their own wombs, is in and of itself faulty. I mean, my God, did the female have sex with the guy, or did she not? As to being ''for change'' in everything but pro-Abort American policies at home and abroad, not everyone ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by MichaelBernard2 on August 21, 2008

  • Orcs yet hope

    I'm as pleased as anybody that the gross Constitutional whackery of Military Tribunals is being confronted. But I cannot support a whole-hog trend towards praising military lawyers (JAGs) or the military justice system. In the current confrontation - with one exception that I will discuss below - JAGs confronting the Commission's minions (and even ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by odysseus on May 14, 2008

  • Military law, international law and teardrops.....

    It is gratifying to read the analyses of how the overseas travel of administration attorneys or leaders could, in the future, expose them to prosecution in foreign courts for violations of national laws that give effect to the Geneva Convention, and incidentally cover related activities such as special rendition. [Note: read on after the excerpts ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by Wilson Dizard III on April 4, 2008

  • Limits of Judiciary Power

    For my next trick, I will defend free speech without referring to the First Amendment. The English language has over ten thousand words. It has so many words, because the connotative defitions of closely related words lead to unique meanings for each one. Our language is a collection of precision tools, and in courtrooms, it is wielded ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by Niali on July 19, 2007