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Convictions: Slate's blog on legal issues
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I testified yesterday on "Secret Law and the Threat to Democratic and Accountable Government" before the Senate judiciary committee's subcommittee on the Constitution. The hearing, chaired by Sen. Feingold, covered the range of the Bush administration's Read More...
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President Obama wisely signals that his administration will not start out by setting old scores with the Bush administration absent the most unmistakeable showing of criminal intent. His own appointments will determine whether history repeats itself. Read More...
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Seems to me that about the most useless thing any of us can do with the Yoo memo is form character judgments. Whether his work at OLC was animated by bad motives or a well-intentioned desire to avert a terror attack is beyond the scope of a legal blog. Read More...
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John Yoo is a scholar of the first-rank. He confronted a legal and factual problem unlike any other public servant before him.
With hardly any law, and even less direct judicial precedent, he reached plausible, but not always, prudent conclusions. If we put aside the understandable suspicion of the overreaching of the president, can we objectively say what went wrong and, without perfect hindsight, what were the alternative legal -- as opposed to policy -- conclusions? Read More...
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I want to second Dahlia's frustration with those who don't see the newly released Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) torture memo as a big deal. Where is the outrage, the public outcry?! The shockingly flawed content of this memo, the deficient processes that Read More...
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John Yoo's controversial legal memorandum on interrogation authority is now being matched by Mrs. Clinton's ethically questionable memoranda advice attempting to distort the Watergate impeachment process -- including denying counsel to the accused. Isn't there some hope for concluding the American political process on the merits, not character failing? Read More...
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OK, true, Orin and Jack , lawyerly can mean trussing up bad and thin arguments with questionable analogies from other cases and a horde of citations. (Though an awful lot of the ones in this Yoo memo are to other OLC memos from the same era — the ones Read More...
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What takes my breath away about the Yoo memos , now that we can finally read them, is their air of uttery certainty. One after another, complex questions of constitutional law are dispatched as if there's no cause for any debate. The president has all Read More...
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Democrat Barack Obama has persuasively made his case to be president of the United States to this former constitutional lawyer for two Republican presidents. Here's why. . . Read More...
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by Dawn Johnsen For this my inaugural substantive blog I want to pose a question much on my mind: how do we restore our nation's honor, as well as our own? I am a bit tempted instead to join the fray over VP Cheney's filing of the D.C. guns brief, flatly Read More...
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By way of brief introduction : I am a professor of law, teaching constitutional law at Indiana University-Bloomington School of Law, so will be writing from the Heartland, as they say. I am a New Yorker by birth, but now have a Hoosier husband and two Read More...
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