Unqualified Offerings

By Mona
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Greenwald (in updates) notes that some of the Villagers are outraged that President Obama made public four Bush-era Office of Legal Counsel memos justifying and authorizing torture. But, this could be the best gift to the criminal defense bar –  if only we can get the “extra-legal” doctrine really entrenched [...]

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“$104,000 to exhume President Taft” and other stimulus fantasies, on Twitter.
Via Supergee and Making Light.

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I began writing against torture in the very early weeks of this blog. I had some good company in the nascent, yet-to-be-named blogosphere. Also some bad company. In the former cohort was Eve Tushnet. Eve [...]

By Thoreau
Former Assistant Attorney General Jay Bybee is a disgusting human being.  He is the lowest form of life imaginable, and the world would be a better place if he set aside his occupation, became a monk, and spent the rest of his life washing the feet of the sick and poor before going to [...]