By Aziz Huq | January 16, 2006
It was disturbing enough when Congress restricted the habeas rights of Guant�namo Bay detainees in December. But now President George W. Bush is trying to apply the legislation retroacti
By Doug Kendall | December 1, 2008
No presidential administration in history has been better positioned to get top-flight judges onto the federal bench. With a president and vice president who are both experts in constitut
By Timothy J. Heaphy | January 22, 2007
Perhaps in an effort to provide some institutional reform in the wake of last year's page scandal, the House of Representatives on Friday voted to expand the membership of the board that
By Lawrence J. Siskind | January 29, 2007
Charles "Cully" Stimson, deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee affairs, ignited a firestorm when he condemned some of the nation's most prestigious law firms for representin
By Ilya Shapiro | November 17, 2008
The new Supreme Court term is so far more notable for cases denied review than those actually on the argument calendar, and it has otherwise been overshadowed by both the election
By William W. Bedsworth | February 25, 2008
I must admit I was startled. I had not expected to see a gorilla when I left the golf course. And I certainly hadn't expected to be within 20 feet of one.(1)/s
By Deborah Jeffrey | August 6, 2007
The North Carolina State Bar's Disciplinary Hearing Commission has done the legal profession a great service. It has not simply disbarred Mike Nifong but has also given us a nuanced explanatio
By Sheila M. Harvey | June 6, 2006
Ramsay D. Potts, a nationally ranked amateur tennis player for most of his long life, always attacked the ball with vigor and intensity. But even as he walloped the ball, somehow he made
By Robert L. Walker | August 25, 2008
Nothing recedes like excess. All bubbles burst. So with the bubble of gala events surrounding the presidential nominating conventions in recent years. The party bubbl
By Eliot Lauer and Jacques Semmelman | June 25, 2007
Richard Jones, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, issued a public apology on May 22 for stating that Jonathan Pollard, our pro bono client, had committed "treason," and that "[t]he fact that
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