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• 21st Century Turn of an Arendtian Phrase

  Posted Monday, April 07, 2008 2:21 AM by Diane Marie Amann
  
  
  
  "Memo to the next president" is the title of Los Angeles Times reporter Tim Rutten's commentary about how hard it will be for the administration that takes office on January 20, 2009, to get the United States out of the complex mess that's typically subsumed Read More...
  Filed under: torture, terrorism, release of Yoo torture memo, interrogation, Amnesty International, Adolf Eichmann, extraordinary rendition, Tim Rutten, detention, Hannah Arendt

• More on Tainted Evidence

  Posted Sunday, March 23, 2008 1:34 PM by Benjamin Wittes
  
  
  
  Diane's point is well-taken: If the evidence is tainted, it's tainted for purposes of conviction, as well as for sentencing, and it's just as tainted if the defendant gets a long prison sentence as it is if he gets a lethal injection. If the conviction Read More...
  Filed under: death penalty, 9/11 plotters, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, terrorism

• Endorsing Obama

  Posted Sunday, March 23, 2008 9:18 AM by Doug Kmiec
  
  
  
  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...
  Filed under: Iraq, John McCain, Douglas W. Kmiec, Barack Obama, OLC, 9/11 plotters, speech, Roe, abortion, terrorism, rule of law

• Commuted concerns?

  Posted Saturday, March 22, 2008 3:40 PM by Diane Marie Amann
  
  
  
  Benjamin and Emily appear to agree that, as he puts it, "[ t]o the extent the eventual convictions of KSM et al rely on coerced testimony, even indirectly,... the Defense Department should not put them to death ." But should the prospect of execution Read More...
  Filed under: capital punishment, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, exclusionary rule, military commissions, terrorism

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