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  • Re: Pre-emptive pardons

    Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. Our congress - even under democratic control - is too afraid of the Bush family. Unfortunately, it'll most likely take the war crimes tribunal at the Hague for any justice. That said: Bush has basically been making up his own laws for years. All it would take is a few creative progressives in high places to undo ...
    Posted to Explainer by OKGA on July 22, 2008

  • It Don't Mean A Thing (If Only Nazis Swing)

    Regarding the cowardice, opportunism, and indecision that Noah wrote about it in Congress Doesn't Want War Powers, here's a little song I wrote called ''It Don't Mean A Thing (If Only Nazis Swing)'': http://www.myspace.com/fireaimready Lyrics below. It Don't Mean A Thing (If Only Nazis Swing)(Jeff Coleman © 2008)You can send your flying ...
    Posted to Chatterbox by radiobug on July 9, 2008

  • Proposed script

    How do we get these questions to the Dems on the panel? If the have a lick of sense they would do exactly what is proposed. If they let this guy off the hook then they should be held accountable as well for war crimes that I believe the vice president should and if I can do anything about it will be convicted on in the future. Once the most ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by aaronball on June 25, 2008

  • Executive Priviledge..kick the can National Security ..kick

    Just keep claiming whatever authority you feel like, and kick the can down the street again. He makes any egregious claim, does anything he wants. ''I have been advised that this is right and legal. He's got a nearly endless supply of advisers and White House Staff lawyers, and Justice Department lawyers (that we are all paying for!). Some of them ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by RobinInHouston on June 14, 2008

  • Re: The Real John McCain

    I think it is worth remembering the basic thing aout John McCain: he got caught flying an airplane over somebody else's country, and bombing the people there, apparently, it is said, to help a bunch of somebody else's stooges hold power over some other part of that country. Guilty of trespass, assault and battery, and probably violation of the ...
    Posted to Today's Papers by DavidLJ on April 6, 2008

  • Yoo analysis - permanent sleight of hand

    Over at opiniojuris.org they were asking us to look at alternative rules of statutory construction for this key part of the March 13, 2001 Yoo memo (around pages 36-39 and 40): Section 2340 defines the act of torture as an: act committed by a person acting under the color of law specifically intended to inflict severe physical or mental pain or ...
    Posted to Convictions Archive by Benjamin Davis on April 5, 2008

  • war criminals in America?

    Acts by Americans that violate established legal agreements with other countries are, plainly, illegal acts. The people that violate established legal agreements, even if they are presidents or other elected leaders of government, should be charged, tried and punished.
    Posted to Convictions Archive by jbmcknig on April 5, 2008

  • Kosovo/Torture and the rubber hitting the road

    I think that this should be simplified a great deal. It seems that Kosovo was a breach of international law by the United States (not in compliance with an international law rule or not in compliance with an excuse for breach of an international law rule). Let's avoid trying to make stretches on these things. The breach engages the ...
    Posted to Convictions Archive by Benjamin Davis on April 4, 2008

  • war crimes

    Interesting posts. Mr. Lederman's view of torture is right on but his post failed to address the issue posed by Mr. Posner. And his failure was articulated in a juvenile and insulting way. Mr. Posner was addressing the issue of whether the lawyers who wrote the memos could be tried for war crimes. That's it. He didn't defend or condone ...
    Posted to Convictions Archive by katdancer on April 4, 2008

  • Nuremberg and beyond

    This is a brilliant, and long overdue assessment of what has happened to American government.By most accounts, John Yoo is, in person, a really sweet, nice guy.I hope the judges take that into account when he is finally hauled before an International Criminal Tribunal, somewhere outside US borders.One hopes Boalt Hall will use his vacated ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by The Wise Bard on April 3, 2008
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