Department Index
Jurisprudence 2004:
The law, lawyers, and the court.
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- All the President's Lawyers Should the attorney general be the president's yes man?
Dec. 22, 2004 - One Angry Man The lament of the peremptorily challenged.
Dec. 20, 2004 - Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do Does William Rehnquist have a right to keep his medical condition a secret?
Dec. 15, 2004 - You Say Napster, I Say Grokster What do you do when technology outpaces the law?
Dec. 13, 2004 - Defeat So Sweet The Bush administration's strange insistence that it won the detainee cases.
Dec. 10, 2004 - The Crying Game Should we decide capital punishment with our hearts or our heads?
Dec. 2, 2004 - No Big Whoop "Big" news and pressroom snickers over the gay-marriage case.
Dec. 1, 2004 - Blue Hawaii When liberal states get tough on crime.
Nov. 24, 2004 - Bench Pressed When the judge's hands are tied.
Nov. 23, 2004 - Specter Resurrected Sworn fealty to the president as the answer to everything.
Nov. 19, 2004 - The Secrets of Flight Why Transportation Security Administration guards don't have to tell you what they won't tell you.
Nov. 18, 2004 - Talk About Your Overrated Job Why would anybody want to be chief justice?
Nov. 16, 2004 - Loyal to a Fault? The Senate should hold Alberto Gonzales accountable for his bad legal advice.
Nov. 11, 2004 - Lawyered Up The legal nightmare that never materialized.
Nov. 3, 2004 - Intimidation Nation Who will watch the poll-watchers?
Nov. 2, 2004 - File Your Own Election Lawsuit Slate's handy do-it-yourself pleadings for a more litigious Election Day.
Nov. 1, 2004 - I Know What You Did Last Recess Bush could appoint the tie-breaking justice in next month's Bush v. Kerry.
Oct. 28, 2004 - The Case Against John Ashcroft Why don't Democrats condemn the disastrous attorney general?
Oct. 27, 2004 - Supreme Silence Why the Supremes will not decide this year's presidential election.
Oct. 26, 2004 - Benched? What Chief Justice Rehnquist's cancer means for the election.
Oct. 25, 2004 - To Fight Another Day The real reason Guantanamo detainees have returned to the battlefield.
Oct. 25, 2004 - Supremely Scary The sudden outbreak of Supreme Court horror stories.
Oct. 20, 2004 - The Accidental Terrorist The burgeoning new legal category of "enemy combatant lite."
Oct. 19, 2004 - Florida 2000: The Sequel Five ways the election could end up in court, again.
Oct. 18, 2004 - Ten Why the commandments make for such messy law.
Oct. 15, 2004 - Storm Center The year ahead in the Supreme Court.
Oct. 4, 2004 - Nevermind Hamdi wasn't so bad after all.
Sept. 23, 2004 - Thou Dost Protest Too Much An old law turns protesters into threats against the president.
Sept. 21, 2004 - Name Games The folly in the attempts to define "African-American."
Sept. 16, 2004 - How Do You Solve the Problem of Sharia? Canada grapples with the boundaries of legal multiculturalism.
Sept. 10, 2004 - Sins of Commissions Why aren't we using the courts-martial system at Guantanamo?
Sept. 8, 2004 - Public Offenders Why criminals in Massachusetts are getting out of jail free.
Sept. 3, 2004 - Hall of Blame Who's to blame for the wreckage of the Kobe Bryant case?
Sept. 2, 2004 - Law Schools That Protest Too Much Universities are kicking military recruiters off campus. What a bad way to fight "don't ask, don't tell."
Aug. 16, 2004 - A Sexual Bill of Rights Bickering over vibrators on the 11th Circuit.
Aug. 4, 2004 - Prisoners' Dilemma How the administration is obstructing the Supreme Court's terror decisions.
Aug. 3, 2004 - The Late, Great States Where have all the federalists gone?
July 22, 2004 - Supreme Court Cleanup in Aisle 4 Blakely is too big and messy to ignore.
July 17, 2004 - No-Good Lazy Justices After the Supreme Court's sentencing case, the sky is falling. Hooray!
July 15, 2004 - Run-on Sentencing The barely noticed mayhem following the Supreme Court's Blakely decision.
July 12, 2004 - The Incredible Shrinking Judiciary The federal bench starts to throw off its shackles.
July 9, 2004 - Death Means Never Having to Say "I'm Sorry" The complicated dance of apologies around the death penalty.
July 7, 2004 - Family Feud Family courts don't solve conflict, they create it.
June 18, 2004 - Lone Star Justice Alberto Gonzales' strange views of international law.
June 15, 2004 - Father Knows Worst The high court wasn't chicken to duck the pledge case.
June 14, 2004 - No Mercy Ronald Reagan's tough legal legacy.
June 14, 2004 - Cooking Up Excuses With the Pentagon How to torture alleged terrorists and get away with it.
June 10, 2004 - We Won't Get O.J.-ed Again How could we have been so stupid?
June 9, 2004 - Proof, Negative The Justice Department's triumphant victory over the Constitution.
June 2, 2004 - Courting Trouble A story of love, marriage, and litigation strategy.
June 1, 2004 - Wise Counsel Appoint a special counsel to investigate Geneva violations.
May 28, 2004 - Printing Problems The inexact science of fingerprint analysis.
May 27, 2004 - Sandra's Days The cowgirl from Arizona gets personal.
May 25, 2004 - Slippery Slop The maddening "slippery slope" argument against gay marriage.
May 19, 2004 - Tainted by Torture How evidence obtained through coercion is undermining the legal war on terrorism.
May 14, 2004 - Do the Right Thing Keeping the ICC out of Abu Ghraib.
May 7, 2004 - Everyday Obstruction The government finds a new way to nail old tax evaders.
May 6, 2004 - Zero to Life The injustice of white-collar sentencing rules.
May 6, 2004 - Trials and Terrors These are our banner terror trials?
April 16, 2004 - Habeas Schmabeas The 60-year-old case that will decide Guantanamo.
April 14, 2004 - Marshal, Marshal, Marshal Scalia's goon squad.
April 12, 2004 - Hired Guns What to do about military contractors run amok.
April 9, 2004 - Foreign Exchange Should the Supreme Court care what other countries think?
April 9, 2004 - Holy Matrimony The most important gay marriage battles will be fought in the pews.
April 7, 2004 - Gitmo' Better Blues The folly of the new Guantanamo trials.
March 19, 2004 - Je Refuse! Justice Scalia's letter to the American people.
March 18, 2004 - Not-So Supreme The dumb new proposal to veto the Supreme Court.
March 17, 2004 - Tough Choices Chief Justice Rehnquist explains Bush v. Gore.
March 15, 2004 - Domestic Silence The Supreme Court kills evidence-based prosecution.
March 12, 2004 - Hiibel Revisited Apocalyptic constitutional moment ahead.
March 10, 2004 - Fighting Words Leave Scalia alone.
March 10, 2004 - Justice Burps Shock and awe over the Blackmun papers.
March 5, 2004 - The Trouble With Hiibel Is your name really a deep, dark secret?
March 3, 2004 - False Light, Camera, Action The story Joe Eszterhas forgot to share.
Feb. 25, 2004 - Bad City What's an attorney general to do?
Feb. 24, 2004 - Civic Disobedience San Francisco chooses the wrong way to flout the state.
Feb. 24, 2004 - Memogate The Judiciary Committee computer scandal is one gnarly sausage.
Feb. 19, 2004 - Dispatch From the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention The tragic lives of state legislators.
Feb. 13, 2004 - Be a Man, David Gender bending in the Minnelli-Gest divorce.
Feb. 12, 2004 - Full Faith and Credulous The president heads down the path of the bigots.
Feb. 10, 2004 - Sitting Ducks Ruffled feathers over the Supreme Court's recusal rules.
Feb. 3, 2004 - Spare Us the "Spare the Rod" Canada tries to sort out the good spankings from the bad.
Jan. 31, 2004 - Level Paying Field The law may allow ads attacking the Democratic presidential nominee to go unanswered.
Jan. 28, 2004 - Vile, Vile Pedophile Is child molesting a sickness or a crime?
Jan. 8, 2004 - Little Man Tate Florida's young murderer and the insanity of our competency laws.
Jan. 2, 2004
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