The SEC has charged Goldman Sachs with “defrauding investors by allegedly marketing a financial product tied to subprime mortgages without telling them a big hedge fund was on the other side of the trade.” My first question was one which … Continue reading →
The first is no surprise at all: Supreme Court Justice Stevens, who is nearly ninety, and as a liberal wanted to wait to retire until he knew another liberal would be appointed to fill his place. Now he can do … Continue reading →
I was just listening to the tail end of an interview on Fox between Megyn Kelly and Arizona Governor Jan Brewer. Brewer was talking about the Tenth Amendment challenges planned by governors and attorney generals around the country if HCR … Continue reading →
I don’t know enough inside baseball to know exactly why Lindsey Graham is doing this. But I do know it’s the sort of thing that in the past earned him the rage of conservatives, and rightly so. That Graham is … Continue reading →
The Democratic meme of the moment is that the Slaughter solution is no biggie, it’s just a self-executing rule of a type that’s been employed many times before and which Republicans themselves use frequently (see also this and this). Really! … Continue reading →
Many have questioned whether the Slaughter solution, if used, would stand the test of constitutionality. Although no one knows, here’s a post at Volokh about a possibly relevant case, Public Citizen v United States District Court for the District of … Continue reading →
Remember Lynne Stewart? She was the defense attorney convicted of helping her terrorist client Abdel Rahman send messages to his supporters. Stewart acted in violation of an agreement that “she would not “use…meetings, correspondence, or phone calls with Abdel Rahman … Continue reading →
It appears that a military trial for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is looking mighty good to the Obama administration right about now. The strange thing is that those legal geniuses, Obama and Holder, didn’t see that to begin with. I’m not … Continue reading →
…the House Democrats tried to sneak a provision into an intelligence bill that would ban and criminalize any interrogation tactic that a prosecutor subjectively believes is “degrading,” including but not limited to itemized practices such as “prolonged isolation,” “exploiting the … Continue reading →
These two things are not exactly related, but they seem to go together. First, the good news: Lawyers Yoo and Bybee will face no discipline for writing their memos (my take on a related issue here). Next, the bad: nine … Continue reading →
Why was Amy Bishop not apprehended and incarcerated long ago? Or, at the very least, forced to have an encounter with the mental health system? If this report is true (and I’d like to see a link to the additional … Continue reading →
In an excellent development, the Taliban’s top military commander has been captured in Pakistan: Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the group’s No. 2 leader behind Afghan Taliban founder Mullah Mohammad Omar and a close associate of Osama bin Laden, was captured … Continue reading →