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  • Legal Times

    Mob Rules: Don't Let Islamic Violence Squelch Free Speech

    By Lawrence Siskind | November 27, 2006

    The heckler's veto is an American legal concept sadly transformed into an international symptom of Western timidity. From Denmark to the Vatican, from the Berlin Opera to the editorial p

  • Legal Times

    No Retreat Now

    By Brian W. Walsh and Stephanie A. Martz | September 1, 2008

    Our two organizations, the Heritage Foundation and the National Association of Crim­i­nal Defense Lawyers, are at opposite ends of the conservative-to-liberal spectrum. But

  • Legal Times

    Guantanamo Bay and the Justices: A Least Worst Proposal

    By Charles A. Shanor | December 8, 2003

    Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has described Guantanamo Bay as the "least worst place" to house captured Taliban and al Qaeda forces. Presumably, he was referring neither to the warm

  • Legal Times

    An Unwritten Exception?

    By J. Gerald Hebert | June 11, 2007

    When I was a small boy confronted about misbehavior, I often resorted to some explanation so far-fetched that I immediately lost all credibility. My mother used my incriminating answers

  • Legal Times

    Letters to the Editor: Ruling in the beef marketing case threatens the Solomon Amendment; Supreme Court medical marijuana ruling

    June 20, 2005

    AD RULING HURTS LAW SCHOOL CASE To the editor: The U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling permitting the government to force beef producers to pay for a marketing camp

  • Legal Times

    When the Shooting Starts

    By Louis Fisher | July 28, 2008

    James Baker III and Warren Chris­topher have a new solution to the ongoing dispute over how this country decides to go to war. They laid out the short version of proposed legis

  • Legal Times

    Age Has Not Withered Him

    By Ronald D. Rotunda | July 7, 2008

    John McCain is 71 years old, while his rival for the presidency, Barack Obama, is 46. Age is an issue in this campaign. Is McCain too old to be president? Is Obama too inexperienced?br

  • The Recorder

    Tastes Like Trouble

    By William W. Bedsworth | April 21, 2008

    I try really hard not to throw rocks at legislators. For one thing, they have a very tough job, a very boring job, a job most of us wouldn't take unless they'd stopped hiring at the stee

  • Legal Times

    'Harvest of Shame' Again?

    By John Conyers Jr. and Sheila Jackson Lee | February 2, 2004

    Forgive us if we are skeptical of the Bush administration's election-year conversion to immigration reform. President George W. Bush's proposal would, in truth, relegate millions of fore

  • Legal Times

    Shot in the Foot

    February 9, 2009

    In the midst of the financial crisis, when nerves seem rawer than ever, the most intense attention has been placed on nominees’ tax records. Timothy Geith­ner, who wa

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