Archive for November, 2006
A fuming John Yoo, famous author of specious legal arguments for ever greater war powers by this President, sounds personally affronted by the Supreme Court’s recent rebuke of his own arguments in “The high court’s Hamdan power grab” in the LA Times. He accuses the Court of being “hostile,” via its “interference,” and in its “lack [...]
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A few weeks ago, Ken Mehlman asked the public to write the White House and give their views on the secret CIA detainees now being transferred to
Guantanamo and how they should be treated and under what rules they should be tried.
I did watch key excerpts of Mr. Bush’s address and now follow Mr. Mehlman’s [...]
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The current debate over “judicial activism” is being waged primarily from the conservative side of the aisle. Although there was a cry from the liberal side when they complained that the Supreme Court intervened far too early in settling the 2000 election via the case of Gore V. Bush in what they claimed was an [...]
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With all due respect to recent comments by David Gelernter and Larry C. Johnson & their opposing views on the torture debate: both miss the point.
Johnson claims the limited value torture brings is offset by the committed enemies it creates and the limited quality of the information gathered by such methods. Gelernter believes that [...]
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Socrates and the Law
The ultimate convergence involving politics, history, and the law happened in Ancient Greece when Socrates was legally tried and convicted of corrupting the youth of Athens, arguing against the established gods of the state, and for creating new gods.
In reality, as most people knew, he was merely on the wrong side of politics and the postions of those [...]
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