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• The Bill of Wrongs The 10 most outrageous civil liberties violations of 2006.
  Dahlia Lithwick Dec. 30, 2006
  
• Prosecutorial Indiscretion Just when you thought DA Mike Nifong couldn't make a worse mess of the Duke rape case …
  Emily Bazelon Dec. 26, 2006
  
• The Jury Snub A conservative form of judicial activism.
  Seth Rosenthal Dec. 18, 2006
  
• Block That Branch Why can Congress take cases away from the courts?
  Emily Bazelon Dec. 16, 2006
  
• Sex and the City New York City bungles transgender equality.
  Kenji Yoshino Dec. 11, 2006
  
• Ghetto Capitalism Sudhir Venkatesh's new book unravels the mystery of the underground economy.
  Patrick Radden Keefe Dec. 8, 2006
  
• Blind Side An argument for voluntary school integration that conservatives should like.
  Kenji Yoshino Dec. 7, 2006
  
• Justice Grover Versus Justice Oscar Scalia and Breyer sell very different constitutional worldviews.
  Dahlia Lithwick Dec. 6, 2006
  
• Fa-la-la-la-lawsuit Get sued at the office holiday party!
  Dahlia Lithwick Dec. 1, 2006
  
• Throw Him in the Brig! The Bush administration's latest, and most appalling, assault on habeas corpus.
  Emily Bazelon Nov. 30, 2006
  
• Listen Up The Supreme Court's hot/cold audio-casting policy
  Dahlia Lithwick Nov. 28, 2006
  
• Jurisprudes? What's wrong with supersexy ads in a legal magazine?
  Dahlia Lithwick Nov. 22, 2006
  
• Formula for Forgiving How Americans measure how long it takes to forgive racist comments.
  Dahlia Lithwick Nov. 18, 2006
  
• Rolling the Dice The United States' big legal gamble with Internet gaming.
  Henry Lanman Nov. 15, 2006
  
• The High Court Goes Courting Supreme Court justices talk to the media in self-defense.
  Dahlia Lithwick Nov. 14, 2006
  
• The Five-Fifths Clause How we count, and use, our prisoners.
  Andrew Marantz Nov. 6, 2006
  
• Yes, Virginia, This Is a Terrible Amendment Why the gay marriage ban is bad for all Virginians.
  Dahlia Lithwick Nov. 4, 2006
  
• Containing Torture How torture begets even more torture.
  Darius Rejali Oct. 27, 2006
  
• When the Justice Department Played Defense Congress gives the 2002 torture memos a weird upside.
  Judith Resnik Oct. 27, 2006
  
• Does YouTube Really Have Legal Problems? How the Bell lobby helped midwife YouTube.
  Tim Wu Oct. 26, 2006
  
• A Private Affair The New Jersey gay marriage decision ain't activism.
  Dahlia Lithwick Oct. 25, 2006
  
• The Supreme Press Critics Scalia, Alito, and Kennedy take on the Fourth Estate.
  Dahlia Lithwick Oct. 24, 2006
  
• Election Deform The Supreme Court messes up election law. Again.
  Richard L. Hasen Oct. 24, 2006
  
• Pass the Buck When Congress passes unconstitutional laws.
  Dahlia Lithwick Oct. 7, 2006
  
• For God's Sake How the courts have forsaken both God and the Constitution.
  Avi Schick Oct. 5, 2006
  
• Photo Finish How the Abu Ghraib photos morphed from scandal to law.
  Dahlia Lithwick Sept. 28, 2006
  
• The Blind Leading the Willing A compromise between those who don't care and those who don't want to know.
  Dahlia Lithwick Sept. 27, 2006
  
• Forget Nuremberg How Bush's new torture bill eviscerates the promise of Nuremberg.
  David Luban Sept. 26, 2006
  
• Networking Born Killers The eerie Weblogs of young murderers.
  Dahlia Lithwick Sept. 23, 2006
  
• Cooler Heads The difference between the president's lawyers and the military's.
  Richard Schragger Sept. 20, 2006
  
• Gray Is Beautiful Why Congress shouldn't write interrogation rules.
  Emily Bazelon Sept. 20, 2006
  
• Bad Party Line All the reasons to hate Bush's wiretapping bill.
  Bruce Ackerman Sept. 18, 2006
  
• Graceless Did Nancy Grace kill Melinda Duckett?
  Dahlia Lithwick Sept. 15, 2006
  
• Stream of Conscience Why it matters what definition of torture we use.
  Dahlia Lithwick Sept. 13, 2006
  
• Liberty for Sale Richard Posner takes a hard look at the cost of the administration's policies.
  Dahlia Lithwick Sept. 8, 2006
  
• The Courtroom Slam How Bush's Guantanamo bill locks the detainees out of court.
  Emily Bazelon Sept. 8, 2006
  
• Tainted Fruit How can al-Qaida's 14 worst terrorists stand trial?
  David Cole Sept. 8, 2006
  
• Checked and Imbalanced The president tries for a do-over in his Gitmo speech.
  Dahlia Lithwick Sept. 6, 2006
  
• Clerked Around Is there a major girl crisis in Supreme Court hiring?
  Dahlia Lithwick Aug. 30, 2006
  
• Rocks and Powder Will Congress listen to the courts and fix drug sentencing?
  Larry Schwartztol Aug. 23, 2006
  
• Every Executive Needs a Limit Judge Taylor got it right on wiretapping.
  Erwin Chemerinsky Aug. 18, 2006
  
• The Outsourcing of American Law Who needs federal judges when you have Canadians?
  Ariel N. Lavinbuk Aug. 15, 2006
  
• Teen Terror Are teenagers like fundamentalist terrorists?
  Dahlia Lithwick Aug. 12, 2006
  
• Criminal, Immunize Thyself The Bush administration's get out of jail card for torturers.
  John Sifton Aug. 11, 2006
  
• Jury-Rigging Can a computer pick a better jury than a high-priced consultant?
  Jeff Horwitz Aug. 10, 2006
  
• No Man Is an Island Anthony Kennedy's surprising charge to the American Bar Association.
  Dahlia Lithwick Aug. 7, 2006
  
• Private I's? Should the law protect us from kiss-and-tell bloggers?
  Dahlia Lithwick July 29, 2006
  
• Bench-Clearing Brawl Judges need to join the fight to save the courts.
  Bert Brandenburg July 28, 2006
  
• Rational Lampoon How to make a thorny constitutional question disappear.
  Dahlia Lithwick July 26, 2006
  
• Hamdan Hoax, Part 3 The mistaken defense of Sens. Kyl and Graham.
  Emily Bazelon July 26, 2006
  
• Speakers Cornered Cheney's leaking represents an abuse of power, not freedom of speech.
  Erwin Chemerinsky July 25, 2006
  
• The Judiciary Strikes Back The government fails to kill off a court challenge to NSA snooping.
  Patrick Radden Keefe July 21, 2006
  
• Stealing First Dick Cheney as the next First Amendment poster child.
  Akhil Reed Amar July 18, 2006
  
• Detain Game How Congress can make Guantanamo even worse.
  Bruce Ackerman July 17, 2006
  
• Minority Report The United States inches ever closer to criminalizing bad thoughts.
  Dahlia Lithwick July 15, 2006
  
• Hate and Marriage Same-sex marriage setbacks may not be all bad news for gay rights.
  Richard Thompson Ford July 12, 2006
  
• Invent This Wheel!!! Now can we try using courts-martial for enemy detainees?
  Neal Katyal July 11, 2006
  
• A Branch Too Far The dopey plan to appoint an inspector general for the judiciary.
  Dirk Olin July 10, 2006
  
• Process Makes Perfect John Roberts' marked, and positive, influence on the Supreme Court.
  Rodger Citron July 7, 2006
  
• Crazy Law The Supreme Court beats up on the insanity defense.
  Emily Bazelon July 6, 2006
  
• Take the Fifth Reporters are looking to the wrong amendment to protect them.
  Peter Scheer July 6, 2006
  
• How Scalia Lost His Mojo Why the Supreme Court's most exciting justice is becoming much less fun to read.
  Conor Clarke July 5, 2006
  
• Swing for the Bleachers The tug of war for the mind of Anthony Kennedy.
  Dahlia Lithwick July 1, 2006
  
• Not Live From Capitol Hill The Supreme Court busts Lindsey Graham and John Kyl.
  Emily Bazelon June 29, 2006
  
• Fair to Meddling The myth of the hands-off conservative jurist.
  Seth Rosenthal June 27, 2006
  
• The Battle of Hudson Heights A small case may portend big changes to the exclusionary rule.
  Akhil Reed Amar June 19, 2006
  
• Small World Another side to the Reno sniper case.
  Dahlia Lithwick June 17, 2006
  
• Endangered Elitist Species In defense of the Supreme Court law clerk.
  Dahlia Lithwick June 13, 2006
  
• JAGged Justice The Army needs an independent prosecutor.
  Eric Umansky June 12, 2006
  
• Kennedy Made Me Do It How one Supreme Court Justice makes all conservatives stupid.
  Dahlia Lithwick June 8, 2006
  
• Junk Bonds What baseball can teach us about anti-discrimination law.
  Richard Thompson Ford June 5, 2006
  
• Kissykissy.com The shadowy laws of Internet dating.
  Dahlia Lithwick June 3, 2006
  
• Gideon's Silence Whatever happened to the right to counsel?
  Alexandra Natapoff May 31, 2006
  
• Mr. Jefferson, Meet Mr. Jefferson What the framers would say about raids on congressional offices.
  Akhil Reed Amar May 26, 2006
  
• Secret Guarding The new secrecy doctrine so secret you don't even know about it.
  Henry Lanman May 22, 2006
  
• Big Fish It's time to put the al-Qaida ringleaders on trial.
  Dahlia Lithwick May 20, 2006
  
• Pack Rats It's not a good idea to start stacking the federal bench.
  Dahlia Lithwick May 17, 2006
  
• Justice Sandy Five simple rules for discussing judicial independence.
  Dahlia Lithwick May 12, 2006
  
• Camp Fire Guantanamo Bay isn't necessarily a law-free zone.
  Dahlia Lithwick May 9, 2006
  
• Barely Lethal How both sides have staked out the worst position in the lethal-injection fight.
  Dahlia Lithwick May 6, 2006
  
• Take My Life, Please Merciful (but messy) alternatives to lethal injection.
  Hanny Hindi May 5, 2006
  
• Complex Martyr The Zacarias Moussaoui jurors split the difference.
  Dahlia Lithwick May 4, 2006
  
• Duke and Cover When election-time politics overtake the pursuit of justice.
  David Feige May 1, 2006
  
• Lacrosse Purposes How we fool ourselves into believing we are dispassionate about the Duke case.
  Dahlia Lithwick April 22, 2006
  
• The Abuse Excuse Zacarias Moussaoui's lawyers float the "Impoverished French Muslim Syndrome." 
  Alan M. Dershowitz April 20, 2006
  
• Meet the New Padilla The next 9/11 case to watch.
  Emily Bazelon April 10, 2006
  
• Can We Talk? Decoding the blabbering Supremes.
  Dahlia Lithwick April 8, 2006
  
• No SWAT The most important Supreme Court case you've never heard about.
  Radley Balko April 6, 2006
  
• The Perils of Judicial Restraint If the Supreme Court won't intervene on "enemy combatant" cases, Congress must.
  Bruce Ackerman April 5, 2006
  
• When You Wish Upon a Scar Zacarias Moussaoui finally makes his dreams come true.
  Dahlia Lithwick April 3, 2006
  
• How Do You Solve the Problem of Scalia? The razor-thin line between obscenity and bad judgment.
  Dahlia Lithwick March 30, 2006
  
• Invisible Men Did Lindsey Graham and Jon Kyl mislead the Supreme Court?
  Emily Bazelon March 27, 2006
  
• A Conspiracy Theory How the Supreme Court can decide its thorniest case.
  Ariel N. Lavinbuk March 27, 2006
  
• For Closure Do death sentences really give victims relief?
  Dahlia Lithwick March 25, 2006
  
• Talk Fast What you won't say can kill you.
  Dahlia Lithwick March 22, 2006
  
• Tamper-Proof Carla Martin's witness tampering wasn't rare, just sloppy.
  David Feige March 16, 2006
  
• Rushmore to Judgment South Dakota ups the ante in the national war over judges.
  Bert Brandenburg March 14, 2006
  
• Causation Inflation Did Zacarias Moussaoui really "cause" 9/11?
  Dahlia Lithwick March 14, 2006
  
• Copycatfight The rag trade's fashionably late arrival to the copyright party.
  Henry Lanman March 13, 2006
  
• Family Fuse Why the rules about gay parenting are changing under your nose.
  Dahlia Lithwick March 11, 2006
  
• High Times and Misdemeanors What the Supreme Court's drug cases may tell us about limits on federal powers.
  Judy Coleman March 10, 2006
  
• The Campaign Trial The true cost of expensive court seats.
  James Sample March 6, 2006
  
• Death and Wal-Mart Pharmacists, physicians, and the right of conscience.
  Dahlia Lithwick Feb. 25, 2006
  
• Tight Briefs The government's tricky lawyering in the Guantanamo Bay cases.
  Emily Bazelon Feb. 24, 2006
  
• Clerk-Off Are law clerks staffers?
  Tim Wu Feb. 23, 2006
  
• Fraud Reform? How efforts to ID voting problems have become a partisan mess.
  Richard L. Hasen Feb. 22, 2006
  
• Invisible Men The not-people we're not holding at Guantanamo Bay.
  Dahlia Lithwick Feb. 16, 2006
  
• The Accidental Shootist Both sides in the gun lobby need to rethink their targets.
  John Casteen IV Feb. 14, 2006
  
• The Nixon Doctrine If the commander in chief does it, it's not illegal.
  David Cole Feb. 13, 2006
  
• Death Charge Zacarias Moussaoui hurtles closer to his execution.
  Dahlia Lithwick Feb. 11, 2006
  
• What "Is" Is More fun with the Kansas teen-sex trial.
  Dahlia Lithwick Feb. 9, 2006
  
• One Nation, Underground Why new mining legislation is like throwing a pebble into a mine shaft.
  Noah Leavitt Feb. 8, 2006
  
• Weapons of Business Destruction How a tiny little "patent troll" got BlackBerry in a headlock.
  Tim Wu Feb. 6, 2006
  
• Smells Like Teen Snogging Kansas' wacky attorney general smells sex everywhere.
  Dahlia Lithwick Feb. 2, 2006
  
• Opening the Door Court stripping: unconscionable and unconstitutional?
  Judith Resnik Feb. 1, 2006
  
• Sign Here Presidential signing statements are more than just executive branch lunacy.
  Dahlia Lithwick Jan. 30, 2006
  
• The Outer Shell The hollowing out of Roe v. Wade.
  Dawn Johnsen Jan. 25, 2006
  
• Keeping Secrets A simple prescription for keeping Google's records out of government hands.
  Tim Wu Jan. 23, 2006
  
• Kiss and Make It Up What happens when there is no law constraining Alito.
  Dahlia Lithwick Jan. 19, 2006
  
• Swing Time Anthony Kennedy—the new Sandra Day O'Connor.
  Dahlia Lithwick Jan. 17, 2006
  
• Please Don't Feed the Federalists A Democrat's field guide to the conservative jurist.
  Dahlia Lithwick Jan. 13, 2006
  
• A Heart, No Matter How Small To find Alito's, take out your magnifying glass.
  Emily Bazelon Jan. 11, 2006
  
• Confirmation Report The breathtaking hubris of the "open mind."
  Dahlia Lithwick Jan. 10, 2006
  
• Your Witness, Senators Expert suggestions on cross-examining Sam Alito.
  Dahlia Lithwick Jan. 9, 2006
  
• Bush vs. Camus What Albert Camus and the "little-ease" say about U.S. torture policies.
  Peter Brooks Jan. 3, 2006