Department Index
Jurisprudence 2007:
The law, lawyers, and the court.
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- Legal Fictions The Bush administration's dumbest legal arguments of the year.
Dec. 28, 2007 - Capital Opportunity Democrats could safely champion death-penalty reform—why aren't they?
Dec. 28, 2007 - Operation Refusal Giuliani's sorry crackdown on New York City's taxi drivers.
Dec. 19, 2007 - Foxes Only How not to investigate the destruction of the CIA tapes.
Dec. 17, 2007 - Whose Prisoners Are They, Anyway? The Americans you've never heard of who are being held in Iraq.
Dec. 14, 2007 - The Stinger Missile Sting Why the government should keep its promises to bad guys like Haji Noorzai.
Dec. 12, 2007 - The CIA Tapes and the War on Terror A timeline.
Dec. 11, 2007 - Ifs and Buts If the CIA hadn't destroyed those tapes, what would be different?
Dec. 10, 2007 - On the Ground at Guantanamo While the Supreme Court ponders, a real trial begins.
Dec. 4, 2007 - Don't Know Much About History But in the Gitmo cases, that won't stop the Bush administration from claiming it's on their side.
Dec. 4, 2007 - Writing Lessons The Supreme Court plays Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.
Dec. 3, 2007 - Open Books Why Supreme Court justices' speeches are less important than oral arguments.
Nov. 30, 2007 - Bad Ideas The law promoting outstanding excellence in fighting terrorism—and why you never heard about it.
Nov. 27, 2007 - On the Advice of Counsel The campaigns build their legal brain trusts. Plus: What did all the lawyer-candidates get on their LSATs?
Nov. 26, 2007 - They've Slept On It Sixty-eight years after last taking on a gun case, the Supreme Court awakens to a violent debate.
Nov. 20, 2007 - Hear Me, Hear Me Sometimes, all a family court judge can do is listen.
Nov. 15, 2007 - State Your Secrets The smart way around telecom immunity.
Nov. 14, 2007 - Die Hardest Why the states are standing by their outdated, messy lethal-injection protocols.
Nov. 13, 2007 - Independence Day How Michael Mukasey's squishiness on water-boarding became laudable intellectual independence.
Nov. 6, 2007 - Diddy Could Save Sampling Why hasn't he or any other big-name rapper even tried?
Nov. 1, 2007 - Attorney General Chess If Mukasey is knocked out, which party loses?
Oct. 31, 2007 - What Lies Beneath Alberto Gonzales' legal troubles may just be beginning.
Oct. 26, 2007 - Pyrrhic Acquittal The Holy Land Foundation defendants aren't off the hook.
Oct. 24, 2007 - All Wet Why can't we renounce waterboarding once and for all?
Oct. 22, 2007 - From Toady to True Believer How confirming Michael Mukasey will further cripple Congress.
Oct. 22, 2007 - Rebound Relationship The Senate runs into the arms of Michael Mukasey.
Oct. 17, 2007 - No headline
Oct. 17, 2007 - The Dog Ate My Evidence What happens when the government can't re-create the case against you?
Oct. 16, 2007 - Don't Hang the Ref The CIA's inspector general must be free to do his job.
Oct. 16, 2007 - American Lawbreaking Illegal immigration.
Oct. 14, 2007 - With Him or Against Him The black-and-white world of Clarence Thomas has nothing to do with race.
Oct. 5, 2007 - On the Waterfront A radical labor-green idea at the ports of Southern California.
Oct. 5, 2007 - Not That Innocent But Britney still has a chance to show the court she's fit to be a mom.
Oct. 2, 2007 - Express Yourselves Why all the silence around the breast-feeding test-taker?
Sept. 28, 2007 - Crack Sentencing Is Wack But a fix may finally be on the way.
Sept. 28, 2007 - Deception at the Supreme Court The upcoming term will look like a move to the left. Don't be fooled.
Sept. 28, 2007 - Do Not Vote for This Guy He doesn't want Democrats to vote—unless it's to appoint him to the Federal Election Commission.
Sept. 25, 2007 - The Wrong Poster Children Why the Jena 6 protests have gone awry.
Sept. 24, 2007 - Going from B to A How to fix the No Child Left Behind Act.
Sept. 24, 2007 - Nine Ways To Read The Nine Jeffrey Toobin's new book as a referendum on Supreme Court reporting.
Sept. 21, 2007 - Telling It Like It Isn't John Roberts speaks out. A little.
Sept. 19, 2007 - Mukasey's Not the Man He'll be a weak attorney general.
Sept. 19, 2007 - Independence Daze The litmus tests for Michael Mukasey's conservative critics.
Sept. 17, 2007 - Measuring Mukasey He's no pushover, but will Bush's pick for AG rein in the administration on executive power?
Sept. 17, 2007 - The Legislature Thereof California voters can't change the 2008 election rules on their own.
Sept. 13, 2007 - A Model of a Modern Attorney General The limitations of legal judgment in the war on terror.
Sept. 12, 2007 - Played Out What it would really take to make toys safer.
Sept. 11, 2007 - Rush to Judgment The fight to fill judicial vacancies grows ever weirder.
Sept. 10, 2007 - The Terror Presidency Executive power dos and don'ts.
Sept. 7, 2007 - Carts Before Horses Impeachment inquiry first, ask questions later.
Aug. 31, 2007 - Picks for Attorney General The likely candidates and our own wacky ideas.
Aug. 28, 2007 - Deformed Reform The cure for the Electoral College that is worse than what ails us.
Aug. 24, 2007 - The Heart of Queens Can Nancy Pelosi single-handedly take impeachment off the table?
Aug. 21, 2007 - Sic 'em With the Rally Squad And other tips for dealing with demonstrators from the Presidential Advance Manual.
Aug. 20, 2007 - Lawyers in Wonderland How good lawyers sprout whiskers and top hats after drinking too much national-security punch.
Aug. 16, 2007 - Custody Dispute Why is the U.S. stashing detainees at Policharki prison in Afghanistan?
Aug. 16, 2007 - The Worst of Both Worlds The false choice between treating terrorists as criminals or soldiers.
Aug. 14, 2007 - Secret Insecurity Self-serving hush-ups, in Canada and the United States.
Aug. 14, 2007 - Freer Speech The lower courts give, as the Supreme Court taketh away.
Aug. 10, 2007 - In Gonzo We Trust They want to fire Alberto Gonzales and give him new eavesdropping powers?
Aug. 7, 2007 - The Birth of a Torture Program Jane Mayer reveals how government torture programs come to be.
Aug. 6, 2007 - Wiretap at Will Congressional Democrats redefine spinelessness with the new FISA law.
Aug. 6, 2007 - Originalist Sins The faux originalism of Justice Clarence Thomas.
Aug. 1, 2007 - The Pardon Pander Congress blatantly oversteps its powers for the sake of two Border Patrol agents.
July 26, 2007 - Throw Restraint to the Wind And other ways for the legal left to rein in the Roberts Court.
July 25, 2007 - The Torture Two-Step Bush's new torture order and its loopholes.
July 23, 2007 - The G-Men and the G-Man The Justice Department's "historic" new oversight of the FBI is none of those things.
July 18, 2007 - Get Strong, Congress How to fix the executive-privilege logjam.
July 18, 2007 - Target Practice Justice Scalia sets his sights on New York Times Co. v. Sullivan.
July 17, 2007 - In Defense of the 9th Circuit Why the federal appeals court from the Left Coast doesn't deserve its bad rap.
July 16, 2007 - Rocking the Hard Place Sara Taylor plays the Senate judiciary committee like a harp.
July 11, 2007 - Executive Nonsense Bush's assertion of privilege is wildly misplaced—and could lead to another Watergate.
July 11, 2007 - Hardly Working How Alberto Gonzales' incompetence became a defense for his wrongdoing.
July 10, 2007 - Bad Heir Day How Sandra Day O'Connor became the least powerful jurist in America.
July 9, 2007 - O Lawyer, Where Art Thou? How law firms are failing New Orleans.
July 6, 2007 - The Quality of Mercy Is Strained Bush commutes Libby's sentence, while his lawyers come down hard on everyone else.
July 3, 2007 - The Battle Over Brown How conservatives appropriated Brown v. Board of Education.
July 2, 2007 - Marriage, Trademarked How to understand—and answer—the claim that same-sex marriage demeans the institution.
July 2, 2007 - How To Keep Brown Alive Use income level, instead of race, to integrate the schools.
June 29, 2007 - Sorry Now? What do the liberal and moderate lawyers who supported John Roberts' nomination say today?
June 28, 2007 - Mail Trail The RNC e-mails represent one more White House demerit.
June 21, 2007 - Gag Order A Nebraska judge bans the word rape from his courtroom.
June 20, 2007 - One-Off Offing Why you won't see a disbarment like Mike Nifong's again.
June 18, 2007 - Testimonial Two-Step Mastering the intricate dance of congressional testimony.
June 16, 2007 - Crisis of Confidence The latest terror ruling suggests that the courts do pretty well in a crisis.
June 12, 2007 - Law and Orders How should the president's lawyers advise a reluctant White House?
June 8, 2007 - Line in the Sand Have the Guantanamo judges soured on the president's war tribunals?
June 5, 2007 - Headed Southwick? The case against Bush's latest controversial judicial nominee.
June 4, 2007 - Partial-Birth Confusion The Supreme Court puts doctors in the hot seat.
June 1, 2007 - Raging Caging What the heck is vote caging, and why should we care?
May 31, 2007 - Bad Think The Supreme Court mixes up intending to screw over your employee and actually doing it.
May 30, 2007 - The Goodling Girl How Monica Goodling played the gender card and won.
May 25, 2007 - The Mouse That Roared Monica Goodling was at the center of the prosecutor purge and still has no clue.
May 24, 2007 - The Fraudulent Fraud Squad The incredible, disappearing American Center for Voting Rights.
May 18, 2007 - Nixon Rides Again It's only illegal when the president agrees it's illegal.
May 17, 2007 - The Icing Is Iglesias His firing is reason alone for Congress to impeach Gonzales.
May 17, 2007 - Pulling the Plug Alberto Gonzales browbeats the critically ill.
May 15, 2007 - Big Brothers In Egypt, blogging can get you arrested—or worse.
May 14, 2007 - Alberto Gonzales, Zen Master The attorney general jiujitsus Congress with a smile.
May 10, 2007 - Literary Battle Fatigue The Army can regulate soldiers' blogs and letters—but it shouldn't.
May 9, 2007 - Tracking Device How about using GPS monitoring to stop batterers?
May 4, 2007 - Straight Arrow James Comey takes aim at Alberto Gonzales.
May 3, 2007 - The Right To Remain Silent Silence is about the only right the Guantanamo prisoners have left.
May 1, 2007 - The Sphinx of Sacramento Will the real Anthony Kennedy please stand up?
April 27, 2007 - The Secret Weapon of 2008 Felons are getting the vote back—and Republicans aren't stopping them.
April 27, 2007 - House Arrest Congress, go get Condi, Karl, and Monica yourself!
April 26, 2007 - Gonzo for Gonzo Maybe Alberto Gonzales was brilliant yesterday—and everybody missed it.
April 20, 2007 - Al, the President's Man Alberto Gonzales is bloodied by his trip to the Senate.
April 20, 2007 - Father Knows Best Dr. Kennedy's magic prescription for indecisive women.
April 18, 2007 - The Gonzales Q&A So, what's Al got to say for himself before the Senate?
April 18, 2007 - After Blacksburg The gun law that would make a real difference.
April 17, 2007 - Prosecuting the Prosecutor Did the DA in the Duke lacrosse case commit a crime?
April 13, 2007 - Mike Nifong, Meet Alberto What the rape case fiasco and the U.S. attorney scandal have in common.
April 11, 2007 - Who's the Boss? How Pat Robertson's law school is changing America.
April 7, 2007 - The Reluctant Executioner Kyle Sampson cuts down his ex-boss, Alberto Gonzales.
March 29, 2007 - The YouTube Defense Human rights go viral.
March 28, 2007 - Who's Blaming Whom Where the fingers are pointing in the Bush administration meltdown.
March 27, 2007 - What Congress Gets To Know How to end the standoff on executive privilege and the U.S. attorney scandal.
March 26, 2007 - When Less Is More The nutty legal syllogism that powers the Bush administration.
March 21, 2007 - The Gonzales Files Slate's complete coverage of the attorney general scandals.
March 21, 2007 - Dispatches From the Conrad Black Trial The star witness for the prosecution.
March 21, 2007 - Politics as Usual Why the Justice Department will never be apolitical.
March 14, 2007 - Hyper Hacks What's really wrong with the Bush Justice Department.
March 14, 2007 - Bonus Round What to make of those astronomical Supreme Court signing bonuses?
March 10, 2007 - Specter Detector U.S. attorney scandal update: Who's to blame for those alarming Patriot Act revisions?
March 5, 2007 - The War Powers Showdown It's legal for Congress to manage the war.
March 5, 2007 - Declarative Sentences Congress has the power to make and end war—not manage it.
March 5, 2007 - Royal Flush The purge of U.S. attorneys (partially) explained.
March 2, 2007 - Timid Justice The ICJ should have been harder on Serbia.
Feb. 28, 2007 - Abuseless The Padilla case proves the futility of mistreating prisoners.
Feb. 27, 2007 - Up in Smoke The Supreme Court loses its unanimity.
Feb. 21, 2007 - Human Like Me? The New Jersey Supreme Court case that could define the fetus.
Feb. 20, 2007 - Shill Pill The winners of Slate's build-your-own-hack contest.
Feb. 15, 2007 - Courting Cash Anthony Kennedy weighs in on the crisis in judicial pay.
Feb. 14, 2007 - Hack Attack Please reinvent me as a right-wing blowhard.
Feb. 12, 2007 - Sudden Death American support for the death penalty is diminishing—except on the Supreme Court.
Feb. 10, 2007 - Prosecutor Protector The ethics charges against District Attorney Mike Nifong are a rarity.
Feb. 7, 2007 - Justice Girls The female justices begin to reflect on feminism.
Feb. 6, 2007 - Justice Fever The baloney in two new books about the Supreme Court.
Feb. 5, 2007 - The Irrelevance of Soft Bigotry Why Joe Biden's foul-up doesn't matter.
Feb. 2, 2007 - The Third Man The 4th Circuit does one more round on enemy combatants.
Feb. 1, 2007 - Welcome Back to the Rule of Law Bush makes good on a terrorism case (finally).
Jan. 30, 2007 - Talk of the Gown What the Supreme Court justices won't say speaks volumes.
Jan. 27, 2007 - Diagramming Sentences The Supreme Court's war on sentencing guidelines.
Jan. 23, 2007 - Gonzales' Trojan Horse FISA-approved surveillance may not be a civil-liberties coup.
Jan. 19, 2007 - Happy Birthday, Roe v. Wade On the ruling's anniversary, its fans should celebrate another case, too.
Jan. 18, 2007 - Absolute Power The real reason the Bush administration won't back down on Guantanamo.
Jan. 13, 2007 - Four Ways To Stop the War What Congress could do—if it dared.
Jan. 10, 2007 - The Brennan Memos Brennan dishes on his colleagues.
Jan. 5, 2007 - Bellwether Ma Bell is back. Should you be afraid?
Jan. 4, 2007 - O Mighty Crisis The "constitutional collapse" over judicial pay.
Jan. 2, 2007
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