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Over the past four months, Convictions has reached hundreds of thousands of readers and contributed a great deal to America's legal conversation. However, we have decided to take a sabbatical. Instead of running Convictions as a continuous blog, we'll call on our excellent roster of contributors when news breaks, and run their exchanges as a ...
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''Democracy dies behind closed doors,'' Judge Damon Keith wrote in an opinion for the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals regarding media and public access to terrorism cases.
Our theory of government also dies in hearings like this one, featuring David Addington and John Yoo—memorably described by Dana Milbank and Emily Bazelon in a pair of columns for ...
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C'mon, Orin, you don't give us enough credit with your non-Volokh post. There are plenty of truck-ownin', tobacco-usin', gun-shootin' folks here at Slate. Admittedly, we're a bit of a discrete and insular minority within the Slate family, but I don't think your Heller discussions are unwelcome here.
I'm going through the opinion now, ...
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Eric, your last post regarding judges on tanks made me chuckle. In my mind's eye, I pictured one of the judges I know (or maybe Convictions' own Judge Nancy Gertner) sitting in the loader's seat of an M1A2 Abrams tank, riding along next to the tank commander, offering targeting and other advice while in combat. Of course, it's a silly image ...
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Via the Washington Post and the military's press shop in Baghdad, I learned this morning that the first military prosecution of a civilian contractor in Iraq has ended in a guilty plea. According to today's story:
Also Monday, the U.S. military announced that a Canadian man working as an interpreter for the U.S. military in Iraq was ...
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I'm glad Dahlia chose to open her ''Breakfast Table'' discussion with Walter Dellinger, Jack Goldsmith, and Cliff Sloan with a note about Boumediene—and Justice Antonin Scalia's absurd sky-is-falling dissent arguing that detainees will exit the habeas process to fight us again on the battlefield. Ever the public intellectual, Scalia took ...
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Yesterday, the Senate armed services committee released a 63-page set of documents that illuminates how the Pentagon developed, selected, and approved its list of coercive interrogation techniques for Guantanamo Bay.
As Joby Warrick reports in today's Post, the documents clarify the role that the CIA (and senior government officials such as DoD ...
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Today comes a bizarre follow-up to Deb's post regarding the Supreme Court's decision to grant cert in a case involving legal accountability for high officials. Over at the Volokh Conspiracy, Orin Kerr points to news that a group of legal academics is planning
to convene a conference to plan the prosecution, trial, and punishment
for senior ...
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This just in via SCOTUSblog—the Supreme Court decided today in a 5-4 opinion that detainees at Guantanamo Bay could bring petitions for habeas corpus in federal district court. As Jeff Toobin just said on CNN, this marks the third time (more if you count each individual opinion) that the Supreme Court has taken the Bush administration to the ...
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When I read the news today about Judge Alex Kozinski's posting of inappropriate material on the Internet, it jogged my memory about Judge K's long history of advocacy on Internet use and privacy.
Back in 2001, Kozinski led an effort by 9th Circuit judges to circumvent, disable, and overturn a computer-monitoring system put in place by the ...