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  • Legal Times

    Nothing 'Chilling' Here, Folks: Why Lynne Stewart Doesn't Deserve Our Sympathy This Time

    By Steven Lubet | January 1, 2007

    It wouldn't have been hard to feel sorry for Lynne Stewart, the New York attorney convicted of providing material support to terrorists. At age 67 and suffering from breast cancer, she n

  • Legal Times

    We Can't Vote on Science

    By Steven Lubet | November 27, 2006

    Who decides what is right and true? In court, the judge decides what the law is. In a democracy, political matters are decided by noisy campaigns, followed by elections. Unfortun

  • Legal Times

    When the FBI Sees Danger

    By Bennie G. Thompson | November 24, 2008

    Should the FBI be allowed to use race or ethnicity as a factor in opening an investigation—or what the bureau calls an assessment—of American citizens? The attorney gen

  • Legal Times

    Letters to the Editor: U.S. Attorney Calls Moussaoui Trial 'Shining Example' of Rule of Law, plus more...

    June 11, 2007

    U.S. ATTORNEY CALLS MOUSSAOUI TRIAL �SHINING EXAMPLE' OF RULE OF LAWTo the editor:In a May 21 article entitled "a href="http://www.law.com/jsp/dc/PubArticleDC.jsp?id=11

  • Legal Times

    From the Archives: A Few Good Points

    May 19, 2008

    Over the years, Legal Times' columnists have addressed the biggest stories. Terence Moran plumbed the meaning of the painful Clarence Thomas hearings. Evan Schultz war

  • Legal Times

    What Would Grover Cleveland Do?

    By Harold J. Krent | April 16, 2007

    Attorney General Alberto Gonzales will go before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday to answer questions about the dismissal of eight U.S. attorneys. Gonzales must also determine t

  • Legal Times

    Beware Caesar

    By Matthew R. Segal | February 6, 2006

    President George W. Bush is attempting a bold, aggressive, and systematic consolidation of power in the government's executive branch, and he's practically daring Congress to stop h

  • Legal Times

    Return to Sender

    By Steven M. Dettelbach and Beryl A. Howell | July 2, 2007

    Is there a lawyer in the house? The question should not be difficult to answer inside the Department of Justice. A recent report by the a href="http://www.usdoj.gov/oig" targ

  • Legal Times

    SearchWords

    By Press Millen | February 6, 2006

    One thing I've learned in more than 20 years in the civil litigation business is that if it takes 30 pages of briefing and a stack of documents three feet high to explain why there's no

  • Legal Times

    Don't Let Officials Take Gifts And Money Without Fear of Prosecution

    By Meredith McGehee | September 25, 2006

    Jonathan Swift observed, "Laws are like cobwebs which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through." More "wasps and hornets" than ever stand to benefit if a de

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