The law, lawyers, and the court.

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• All the President's Lawyers Should the attorney general be the president's yes man?
  Dahlia Lithwick Dec. 22, 2004
  
• One Angry Man The lament of the peremptorily challenged.
  Dirk Olin Dec. 20, 2004
  
• Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do Does William Rehnquist have a right to keep his medical condition a secret?
  Dahlia Lithwick Dec. 15, 2004
  
• You Say Napster, I Say Grokster What do you do when technology outpaces the law?
  Rod Smolla Dec. 13, 2004
  
• Defeat So Sweet The Bush administration's strange insistence that it won the detainee cases.
  Lyle Denniston Dec. 10, 2004
  
• The Crying Game Should we decide capital punishment with our hearts or our heads?
  Dahlia Lithwick Dec. 2, 2004
  
• No Big Whoop "Big" news and pressroom snickers over the gay-marriage case.
  Lyle Denniston Dec. 1, 2004
  
• Blue Hawaii When liberal states get tough on crime.
  David Feige Nov. 24, 2004
  
• Bench Pressed When the judge's hands are tied.
  Emily Bazelon Nov. 23, 2004
  
• Specter Resurrected Sworn fealty to the president as the answer to everything.
  Dahlia Lithwick Nov. 19, 2004
  
• The Secrets of Flight Why Transportation Security Administration guards don't have to tell you what they won't tell you.
  Steven Aftergood Nov. 18, 2004
  
• Talk About Your Overrated Job Why would anybody want to be chief justice?
  Dahlia Lithwick Nov. 16, 2004
  
• Loyal to a Fault? The Senate should hold Alberto Gonzales accountable for his bad legal advice.
  Phillip Carter Nov. 11, 2004
  
• Lawyered Up The legal nightmare that never materialized.
  Dahlia Lithwick Nov. 3, 2004
  
• Intimidation Nation Who will watch the poll-watchers?
  Richard Thompson Ford Nov. 2, 2004
  
• File Your Own Election Lawsuit Slate's handy do-it-yourself pleadings for a more litigious Election Day.
  Dahlia Lithwick Nov. 1, 2004
  
• I Know What You Did Last Recess Bush could appoint the tie-breaking justice in next month's Bush v. Kerry.
  Mark Moller Oct. 28, 2004
  
• The Case Against John Ashcroft Why don't Democrats condemn the disastrous attorney general?
  Robert Weisberg Oct. 27, 2004
  
• Supreme Silence Why the Supremes will not decide this year's presidential election.
  Dahlia Lithwick Oct. 26, 2004
  
• Benched? What Chief Justice Rehnquist's cancer means for the election.
  Dahlia Lithwick Oct. 25, 2004
  
• To Fight Another Day The real reason Guantanamo detainees have returned to the battlefield.
  Phillip Carter Oct. 25, 2004
  
• Supremely Scary The sudden outbreak of Supreme Court horror stories.
  Dahlia Lithwick Oct. 20, 2004
  
• The Accidental Terrorist The burgeoning new legal category of "enemy combatant lite."
  Phillip Carter Oct. 19, 2004
  
• Florida 2000: The Sequel Five ways the election could end up in court, again.
  Richard L. Hasen Oct. 18, 2004
  
• Ten Why the commandments make for such messy law.
  Rod Smolla Oct. 15, 2004
  
• Storm Center The year ahead in the Supreme Court.
  Thomas E. Baker Oct. 4, 2004
  
• Nevermind Hamdi wasn't so bad after all.
  Dahlia Lithwick Sept. 23, 2004
  
• Thou Dost Protest Too Much An old law turns protesters into threats against the president.
  Jonathan M. Katz Sept. 21, 2004
  
• Name Games The folly in the attempts to define "African-American."
  Richard Thompson Ford Sept. 16, 2004
  
• How Do You Solve the Problem of Sharia? Canada grapples with the boundaries of legal multiculturalism.
  Dahlia Lithwick Sept. 10, 2004
  
• Sins of Commissions Why aren't we using the courts-martial system at Guantanamo?
  Neal Katyal Sept. 8, 2004
  
• Public Offenders Why criminals in Massachusetts are getting out of jail free.
  David Feige Sept. 3, 2004
  
• Hall of Blame Who's to blame for the wreckage of the Kobe Bryant case?
  Dahlia Lithwick Sept. 2, 2004
  
• Law Schools That Protest Too Much Universities are kicking military recruiters off campus. What a bad way to fight "don't ask, don't tell."
  Phillip Carter Aug. 16, 2004
  
• A Sexual Bill of Rights Bickering over vibrators on the 11th Circuit.
  Dahlia Lithwick Aug. 4, 2004
  
• Prisoners' Dilemma How the administration is obstructing the Supreme Court's terror decisions.
  Phillip Carter Aug. 3, 2004
  
• The Late, Great States Where have all the federalists gone?
  Steve Chapman July 22, 2004
  
• Supreme Court Cleanup in Aisle 4 Blakely is too big and messy to ignore.
  Douglas Berman July 17, 2004
  
• No-Good Lazy Justices After the Supreme Court's sentencing case, the sky is falling. Hooray!
  Dahlia Lithwick July 15, 2004
  
• Run-on Sentencing The barely noticed mayhem following the Supreme Court's Blakely decision.
  Gerald Shargel July 12, 2004
  
• The Incredible Shrinking Judiciary The federal bench starts to throw off its shackles.
  Dana Mulhauser July 9, 2004
  
• Death Means Never Having to Say "I'm Sorry" The complicated dance of apologies around the death penalty.
  Robert Weisberg July 7, 2004
  
• Family Feud Family courts don't solve conflict, they create it.
  Michael Newdow June 18, 2004
  
• Lone Star Justice Alberto Gonzales' strange views of international law.
  Alan Berlow June 15, 2004
  
• Father Knows Worst The high court wasn't chicken to duck the pledge case.
  Dahlia Lithwick June 14, 2004
  
• No Mercy Ronald Reagan's tough legal legacy.
  Gerald Shargel June 14, 2004
  
• Cooking Up Excuses With the Pentagon How to torture alleged terrorists and get away with it.
  Phillip Carter June 10, 2004
  
• We Won't Get O.J.-ed Again How could we have been so stupid?
  Dahlia Lithwick June 9, 2004
  
• Proof, Negative The Justice Department's triumphant victory over the Constitution.
  Dahlia Lithwick June 2, 2004
  
• Courting Trouble A story of love, marriage, and litigation strategy.
  Richard Thompson Ford June 1, 2004
  
• Wise Counsel Appoint a special counsel to investigate Geneva violations.
  Neal Katyal May 28, 2004
  
• Printing Problems The inexact science of fingerprint analysis.
  David Feige May 27, 2004
  
• Sandra's Days The cowgirl from Arizona gets personal.
  Dahlia Lithwick May 25, 2004
  
• Slippery Slop The maddening "slippery slope" argument against gay marriage.
  Dahlia Lithwick May 19, 2004
  
• Tainted by Torture How evidence obtained through coercion is undermining the legal war on terrorism.
  Phillip Carter May 14, 2004
  
• Do the Right Thing Keeping the ICC out of Abu Ghraib.
  Phillip Carter May 7, 2004
  
• Everyday Obstruction The government finds a new way to nail old tax evaders.
  David Feige May 6, 2004
  
• Zero to Life The injustice of white-collar sentencing rules.
  Henry Blodget May 6, 2004
  
• Trials and Terrors These are our banner terror trials?
  Dahlia Lithwick April 16, 2004
  
• Habeas Schmabeas The 60-year-old case that will decide Guantanamo.
  Charles Lane April 14, 2004
  
• Marshal, Marshal, Marshal Scalia's goon squad.
  Dahlia Lithwick April 12, 2004
  
• Hired Guns What to do about military contractors run amok.
  Phillip Carter April 9, 2004
  
• Foreign Exchange Should the Supreme Court care what other countries think?
  Tim Wu April 9, 2004
  
• Holy Matrimony The most important gay marriage battles will be fought in the pews.
  Emily Bazelon April 7, 2004
  
• Gitmo' Better Blues The folly of the new Guantanamo trials.
  Neal Katyal March 19, 2004
  
• Je Refuse! Justice Scalia's letter to the American people.
  Dahlia Lithwick March 18, 2004
  
• Not-So Supreme The dumb new proposal to veto the Supreme Court.
  Dahlia Lithwick March 17, 2004
  
• Tough Choices Chief Justice Rehnquist explains Bush v. Gore.
  Dahlia Lithwick March 15, 2004
  
• Domestic Silence The Supreme Court kills evidence-based prosecution.
  David Feige March 12, 2004
  
• Hiibel Revisited Apocalyptic constitutional moment ahead.
  Barbara Babcock March 10, 2004
  
• Fighting Words Leave Scalia alone.
  Dahlia Lithwick March 10, 2004
  
• Justice Burps Shock and awe over the Blackmun papers.
  Dahlia Lithwick March 5, 2004
  
• The Trouble With Hiibel Is your name really a deep, dark secret?
  Dahlia Lithwick March 3, 2004
  
• False Light, Camera, Action The story Joe Eszterhas forgot to share.
  Michael Doyle Feb. 25, 2004
  
• Bad City What's an attorney general to do?
  Dahlia Lithwick Feb. 24, 2004
  
• Civic Disobedience San Francisco chooses the wrong way to flout the state.
  Richard Thompson Ford Feb. 24, 2004
  
• Memogate The Judiciary Committee computer scandal is one gnarly sausage.
  Dahlia Lithwick Feb. 19, 2004
  
• Dispatch From the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention The tragic lives of state legislators.
  Dana Mulhauser Feb. 13, 2004
  
• Be a Man, David Gender bending in the Minnelli-Gest divorce.
  Dahlia Lithwick Feb. 12, 2004
  
• Full Faith and Credulous The president heads down the path of the bigots.
  Dahlia Lithwick Feb. 10, 2004
  
• Sitting Ducks Ruffled feathers over the Supreme Court's recusal rules.
  Dahlia Lithwick Feb. 3, 2004
  
• Spare Us the "Spare the Rod" Canada tries to sort out the good spankings from the bad.
  Dahlia Lithwick Jan. 31, 2004
  
• Level Paying Field The law may allow ads attacking the Democratic presidential nominee to go unanswered.
  Richard L. Hasen Jan. 28, 2004
  
• Vile, Vile Pedophile Is child molesting a sickness or a crime?
  Dahlia Lithwick Jan. 8, 2004
  
• Little Man Tate Florida's young murderer and the insanity of our competency laws.
  Dahlia Lithwick Jan. 2, 2004