Department Index
Jurisprudence 2006:
The law, lawyers, and the court.
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- The Bill of Wrongs The 10 most outrageous civil liberties violations of 2006.
Dec. 30, 2006 - Prosecutorial Indiscretion Just when you thought DA Mike Nifong couldn't make a worse mess of the Duke rape case …
Dec. 26, 2006 - The Jury Snub A conservative form of judicial activism.
Dec. 18, 2006 - Block That Branch Why can Congress take cases away from the courts?
Dec. 16, 2006 - Sex and the City New York City bungles transgender equality.
Dec. 11, 2006 - Ghetto Capitalism Sudhir Venkatesh's new book unravels the mystery of the underground economy.
Dec. 8, 2006 - Blind Side An argument for voluntary school integration that conservatives should like.
Dec. 7, 2006 - Justice Grover Versus Justice Oscar Scalia and Breyer sell very different constitutional worldviews.
Dec. 6, 2006 - Fa-la-la-la-lawsuit Get sued at the office holiday party!
Dec. 1, 2006 - Throw Him in the Brig! The Bush administration's latest, and most appalling, assault on habeas corpus.
Nov. 30, 2006 - Listen Up The Supreme Court's hot/cold audio-casting policy
Nov. 28, 2006 - Jurisprudes? What's wrong with supersexy ads in a legal magazine?
Nov. 22, 2006 - Formula for Forgiving How Americans measure how long it takes to forgive racist comments.
Nov. 18, 2006 - Rolling the Dice The United States' big legal gamble with Internet gaming.
Nov. 15, 2006 - The High Court Goes Courting Supreme Court justices talk to the media in self-defense.
Nov. 14, 2006 - The Five-Fifths Clause How we count, and use, our prisoners.
Nov. 6, 2006 - Yes, Virginia, This Is a Terrible Amendment Why the gay marriage ban is bad for all Virginians.
Nov. 4, 2006 - Containing Torture How torture begets even more torture.
Oct. 27, 2006 - When the Justice Department Played Defense Congress gives the 2002 torture memos a weird upside.
Oct. 27, 2006 - Does YouTube Really Have Legal Problems? How the Bell lobby helped midwife YouTube.
Oct. 26, 2006 - A Private Affair The New Jersey gay marriage decision ain't activism.
Oct. 25, 2006 - The Supreme Press Critics Scalia, Alito, and Kennedy take on the Fourth Estate.
Oct. 24, 2006 - Election Deform The Supreme Court messes up election law. Again.
Oct. 24, 2006 - Pass the Buck When Congress passes unconstitutional laws.
Oct. 7, 2006 - For God's Sake How the courts have forsaken both God and the Constitution.
Oct. 5, 2006 - Photo Finish How the Abu Ghraib photos morphed from scandal to law.
Sept. 28, 2006 - The Blind Leading the Willing A compromise between those who don't care and those who don't want to know.
Sept. 27, 2006 - Forget Nuremberg How Bush's new torture bill eviscerates the promise of Nuremberg.
Sept. 26, 2006 - Networking Born Killers The eerie Weblogs of young murderers.
Sept. 23, 2006 - Cooler Heads The difference between the president's lawyers and the military's.
Sept. 20, 2006 - Gray Is Beautiful Why Congress shouldn't write interrogation rules.
Sept. 20, 2006 - Bad Party Line All the reasons to hate Bush's wiretapping bill.
Sept. 18, 2006 - Graceless Did Nancy Grace kill Melinda Duckett?
Sept. 15, 2006 - Stream of Conscience Why it matters what definition of torture we use.
Sept. 13, 2006 - Liberty for Sale Richard Posner takes a hard look at the cost of the administration's policies.
Sept. 8, 2006 - The Courtroom Slam How Bush's Guantanamo bill locks the detainees out of court.
Sept. 8, 2006 - Tainted Fruit How can al-Qaida's 14 worst terrorists stand trial?
Sept. 8, 2006 - Checked and Imbalanced The president tries for a do-over in his Gitmo speech.
Sept. 6, 2006 - Clerked Around Is there a major girl crisis in Supreme Court hiring?
Aug. 30, 2006 - Rocks and Powder Will Congress listen to the courts and fix drug sentencing?
Aug. 23, 2006 - Every Executive Needs a Limit Judge Taylor got it right on wiretapping.
Aug. 18, 2006 - The Outsourcing of American Law Who needs federal judges when you have Canadians?
Aug. 15, 2006 - Teen Terror Are teenagers like fundamentalist terrorists?
Aug. 12, 2006 - Criminal, Immunize Thyself The Bush administration's get out of jail card for torturers.
Aug. 11, 2006 - Jury-Rigging Can a computer pick a better jury than a high-priced consultant?
Aug. 10, 2006 - No Man Is an Island Anthony Kennedy's surprising charge to the American Bar Association.
Aug. 7, 2006 - Private I's? Should the law protect us from kiss-and-tell bloggers?
July 29, 2006 - Bench-Clearing Brawl Judges need to join the fight to save the courts.
July 28, 2006 - Rational Lampoon How to make a thorny constitutional question disappear.
July 26, 2006 - Hamdan Hoax, Part 3 The mistaken defense of Sens. Kyl and Graham.
July 26, 2006 - Speakers Cornered Cheney's leaking represents an abuse of power, not freedom of speech.
July 25, 2006 - The Judiciary Strikes Back The government fails to kill off a court challenge to NSA snooping.
July 21, 2006 - Stealing First Dick Cheney as the next First Amendment poster child.
July 18, 2006 - Detain Game How Congress can make Guantanamo even worse.
July 17, 2006 - Minority Report The United States inches ever closer to criminalizing bad thoughts.
July 15, 2006 - Hate and Marriage Same-sex marriage setbacks may not be all bad news for gay rights.
July 12, 2006 - Invent This Wheel!!! Now can we try using courts-martial for enemy detainees?
July 11, 2006 - A Branch Too Far The dopey plan to appoint an inspector general for the judiciary.
July 10, 2006 - Process Makes Perfect John Roberts' marked, and positive, influence on the Supreme Court.
July 7, 2006 - Crazy Law The Supreme Court beats up on the insanity defense.
July 6, 2006 - Take the Fifth Reporters are looking to the wrong amendment to protect them.
July 6, 2006 - How Scalia Lost His Mojo Why the Supreme Court's most exciting justice is becoming much less fun to read.
July 5, 2006 - Swing for the Bleachers The tug of war for the mind of Anthony Kennedy.
July 1, 2006 - Not Live From Capitol Hill The Supreme Court busts Lindsey Graham and John Kyl.
June 29, 2006 - Fair to Meddling The myth of the hands-off conservative jurist.
June 27, 2006 - The Battle of Hudson Heights A small case may portend big changes to the exclusionary rule.
June 19, 2006 - Small World Another side to the Reno sniper case.
June 17, 2006 - Endangered Elitist Species In defense of the Supreme Court law clerk.
June 13, 2006 - JAGged Justice The Army needs an independent prosecutor.
June 12, 2006 - Kennedy Made Me Do It How one Supreme Court Justice makes all conservatives stupid.
June 8, 2006 - Junk Bonds What baseball can teach us about anti-discrimination law.
June 5, 2006 - Kissykissy.com The shadowy laws of Internet dating.
June 3, 2006 - Gideon's Silence Whatever happened to the right to counsel?
May 31, 2006 - Mr. Jefferson, Meet Mr. Jefferson What the framers would say about raids on congressional offices.
May 26, 2006 - Secret Guarding The new secrecy doctrine so secret you don't even know about it.
May 22, 2006 - Big Fish It's time to put the al-Qaida ringleaders on trial.
May 20, 2006 - Pack Rats It's not a good idea to start stacking the federal bench.
May 17, 2006 - Justice Sandy Five simple rules for discussing judicial independence.
May 12, 2006 - Camp Fire Guantanamo Bay isn't necessarily a law-free zone.
May 9, 2006 - Barely Lethal How both sides have staked out the worst position in the lethal-injection fight.
May 6, 2006 - Take My Life, Please Merciful (but messy) alternatives to lethal injection.
May 5, 2006 - Complex Martyr The Zacarias Moussaoui jurors split the difference.
May 4, 2006 - Duke and Cover When election-time politics overtake the pursuit of justice.
May 1, 2006 - Lacrosse Purposes How we fool ourselves into believing we are dispassionate about the Duke case.
April 22, 2006 - The Abuse Excuse Zacarias Moussaoui's lawyers float the "Impoverished French Muslim Syndrome."
April 20, 2006 - Meet the New Padilla The next 9/11 case to watch.
April 10, 2006 - Can We Talk? Decoding the blabbering Supremes.
April 8, 2006 - No SWAT The most important Supreme Court case you've never heard about.
April 6, 2006 - The Perils of Judicial Restraint If the Supreme Court won't intervene on "enemy combatant" cases, Congress must.
April 5, 2006 - When You Wish Upon a Scar Zacarias Moussaoui finally makes his dreams come true.
April 3, 2006 - How Do You Solve the Problem of Scalia? The razor-thin line between obscenity and bad judgment.
March 30, 2006 - Invisible Men Did Lindsey Graham and Jon Kyl mislead the Supreme Court?
March 27, 2006 - A Conspiracy Theory How the Supreme Court can decide its thorniest case.
March 27, 2006 - For Closure Do death sentences really give victims relief?
March 25, 2006 - Talk Fast What you won't say can kill you.
March 22, 2006 - Tamper-Proof Carla Martin's witness tampering wasn't rare, just sloppy.
March 16, 2006 - Rushmore to Judgment South Dakota ups the ante in the national war over judges.
March 14, 2006 - Causation Inflation Did Zacarias Moussaoui really "cause" 9/11?
March 14, 2006 - Copycatfight The rag trade's fashionably late arrival to the copyright party.
March 13, 2006 - Family Fuse Why the rules about gay parenting are changing under your nose.
March 11, 2006 - High Times and Misdemeanors What the Supreme Court's drug cases may tell us about limits on federal powers.
March 10, 2006 - The Campaign Trial The true cost of expensive court seats.
March 6, 2006 - Death and Wal-Mart Pharmacists, physicians, and the right of conscience.
Feb. 25, 2006 - Tight Briefs The government's tricky lawyering in the Guantanamo Bay cases.
Feb. 24, 2006 - Clerk-Off Are law clerks staffers?
Feb. 23, 2006 - Fraud Reform? How efforts to ID voting problems have become a partisan mess.
Feb. 22, 2006 - Invisible Men The not-people we're not holding at Guantanamo Bay.
Feb. 16, 2006 - The Accidental Shootist Both sides in the gun lobby need to rethink their targets.
Feb. 14, 2006 - The Nixon Doctrine If the commander in chief does it, it's not illegal.
Feb. 13, 2006 - Death Charge Zacarias Moussaoui hurtles closer to his execution.
Feb. 11, 2006 - What "Is" Is More fun with the Kansas teen-sex trial.
Feb. 9, 2006 - One Nation, Underground Why new mining legislation is like throwing a pebble into a mine shaft.
Feb. 8, 2006 - Weapons of Business Destruction How a tiny little "patent troll" got BlackBerry in a headlock.
Feb. 6, 2006 - Smells Like Teen Snogging Kansas' wacky attorney general smells sex everywhere.
Feb. 2, 2006 - Opening the Door Court stripping: unconscionable and unconstitutional?
Feb. 1, 2006 - Sign Here Presidential signing statements are more than just executive branch lunacy.
Jan. 30, 2006 - The Outer Shell The hollowing out of Roe v. Wade.
Jan. 25, 2006 - Keeping Secrets A simple prescription for keeping Google's records out of government hands.
Jan. 23, 2006 - Kiss and Make It Up What happens when there is no law constraining Alito.
Jan. 19, 2006 - Swing Time Anthony Kennedy—the new Sandra Day O'Connor.
Jan. 17, 2006 - Please Don't Feed the Federalists A Democrat's field guide to the conservative jurist.
Jan. 13, 2006 - A Heart, No Matter How Small To find Alito's, take out your magnifying glass.
Jan. 11, 2006 - Confirmation Report The breathtaking hubris of the "open mind."
Jan. 10, 2006 - Your Witness, Senators Expert suggestions on cross-examining Sam Alito.
Jan. 9, 2006 - Bush vs. Camus What Albert Camus and the "little-ease" say about U.S. torture policies.
Jan. 3, 2006
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