Department Index
Jurisprudence 2009:
The law, lawyers, and the court.
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- Jesus vs. Allah The fight over God's secular title.
Nov. 22, 2009 - The Real Price of Trying KSM Defense lawyers will inevitably create bad law.
Nov. 19, 2009 - Holder Laughed The attorney general tries to sell us on New York terror trials.
Nov. 18, 2009 - Manhattan Transfer The right's nonsensical arguments against trying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in New York.
Nov. 17, 2009 - Supreme Court Dispatch, Eh How the United States' never-ending legal mess at Gitmo is spilling over into Canada.
Nov. 13, 2009 - Forever Young Death is different, but is it all that different from life without parole?
Nov. 5, 2009 - All Locked Up Did Joe Sullivan, sentenced to life at 13, have a fair trial?
Nov. 4, 2009 - The Bench in Purgatory The new Republican obstructionism on Obama's judicial nominees.
Oct. 26, 2009 - The Gasbags Who Would Break Up Balloon Boy's Family Why you shouldn't be able to cancel a family the way you can cancel a TV show.
Oct. 23, 2009 - Now a Black Firefighter Is Suing New Haven Did the Supreme Court leave the city holding the bag in last summer's Ricci ruling?
Oct. 23, 2009 - Is There "Hope" for Shepard Fairey? How does fair-use law work, anyway?
Oct. 21, 2009 - Dead Law Walking Why are New York cops arresting gay people on charges ruled unconstitutional 26 years ago?
Oct. 20, 2009 - Bringing Roman Polanski to Heel The Los Angeles district attorney explains why he's going after the director.
Oct. 15, 2009 - You Can Check Out Anytime You Like, but You Can Never Leave At least 17 detainees have been ordered released from Guantanamo but are stuck there.
Oct. 12, 2009 - Do Women Make Better Judges? Asked and answered—with data.
Oct. 2, 2009 - How Often Do Women Falsely Cry Rape? The question the Hofstra disaster left dangling.
Oct. 1, 2009 - Save the Google Book Search Deal! It's the best way to make out-of-print books widely accessible.
Sept. 29, 2009 - Spoonfuls of Sugar Americans' continued love affair with the John Roberts Court.
Sept. 26, 2009 - Baby, You Can't Drive Your Car A judge's favorite punishment for drunken drivers—ignition-interlock.
Sept. 22, 2009 - Smeary Lines The lesson we're not learning from the Hofstra date rape that wasn't.
Sept. 21, 2009 - How Liberals Can Win by Losing at the Roberts Court Three strategies for turning a defeat into a (relative) victory.
Sept. 14, 2009 - Not Innocent Enough The elusive search for the sufficiently innocent death-row victim.
Sept. 5, 2009 - Torture Makes the FBI's Job Harder Goodwill toward the United States is an agent's best tool, at home and abroad.
Sept. 2, 2009 - Halfway There Is half a torture investigation better than none at all?
Aug. 25, 2009 - Judges Who Would Be King The judiciary is on an unprecedented power trip.
Aug. 14, 2009 - 306 Syllables on Sotomayor The Senate judiciary committee explains its votes in haiku form.
July 28, 2009 - The Next Justice Will the "Sotomayor standard" make it harder for Obama to seat his next justice?
July 25, 2009 - The Depressing Cycle of Racial Accusation The arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr. is about neither racial profiling nor playing the race card.
July 23, 2009 - What We Didn't Learn We know less about Sonia Sotomayor now than we did a week ago.
July 16, 2009 - What a Waste The Sotomayor hearings were a mass of missed opportunities for Republicans and Democrats alike.
July 15, 2009 - The Most Important Questions To Ask About the CIA's Targeted Killing Program We know Cheney ordered it kept secret. What don't we know?
July 15, 2009 - Honesty at Last! At Sotomayor's hearing, the abortion protestors are the only ones telling the truth.
July 15, 2009 - She's Come Redone Senators at today's hearing were determined to cast Sotomayor as over-the-top. Why didn't she fight back harder?
July 13, 2009 - Fire Proof The New Haven firefighter is no stranger to employment disputes.
July 10, 2009 - Confirmation in 60 Seconds Everything you need to know about Sonia Sotomayor's upcoming hearings.
July 10, 2009 - Are All Civil Rights Special Privileges Now? Assessing the damage done by the Supreme Court in the New Haven firefighters case.
July 2, 2009 - The Supreme Court Gets Ready To Turn on the Corporate Fundraising Spigot The case about the anti-Hillary ad got pushed back till September—and got bigger.
June 29, 2009 - The Ladder How a Supreme Court case about promotions at a local fire department will decide who gets the good jobs in cities across America.
June 25, 2009 - Compensation Nation It's time to formally compensate the victims of overzealous counterterrorism policies.
June 19, 2009 - Judging John Yoo The ruling that could actually lead to accountability for torture.
June 19, 2009 - If Frank Ricci Loses, Blame Scalia Conservative judges are the ones who have made discrimination suits hard to win.
June 16, 2009 - In a "Different" Voice What does the research about how gender influences judging actually say?
June 10, 2009 - The Great Caperton Caper The Supreme Court talks about judicial bias. Kinda.
June 8, 2009 - Cage Match Guantanamo is the least of America's prison problems.
June 5, 2009 - Teach to America Can judicial confirmation hearings really be transformed into "teachable moments"?
June 4, 2009 - Sotomayor's Manly Man Ruling Her bold ruling in favor of a man who claimed sex discrimination.
June 3, 2009 - Hands Off Thomas Neither Clarence Thomas nor Sonia Sotomayor lacks the brains to sit on America's highest court.
May 30, 2009 - Sit Down, Ted Olson and David Boies Let the states experiment with gay marriage—it's not time yet for a federal lawsuit.
May 29, 2009 - Sotomayor Sides With the Cops And persuades a Republican judge to go along with her.
May 28, 2009 - Bad Test Sonia Sotomayor rejected the New Haven firefighters' claim because it threatened to burn down civil rights law.
May 27, 2009 - Slate on Sonia Sotomayor Our complete coverage of Obama's Supreme Court nominee.
May 26, 2009 - The Rational Hysterics Republicans won't beat Sonia Sotomayor by attacking her as too darn human.
May 26, 2009 - The Sotomayor Mystery Why didn't she explain herself in this year's big race case?
May 26, 2009 - The Bold Standard Wanted: a visionary minimalist for the U.S. Supreme Court.
May 23, 2009 - Nothing More Than Feelings Conflating judicial empathy with gender is bad for both women and the law.
May 20, 2009 - Crimes of Compassion It's not just liberals who play the empathy card.
May 15, 2009 - The National Twinkie Defense Sen. Lindsey Graham doesn't think we need anti-torture laws, just anti-torture niceties.
May 13, 2009 - The Squint Test How to protect fashion designers like Jason Wu from Forever 21 knockoffs.
May 13, 2009 - What Will Kill the Next Supreme Court Nominee? A) abortion, B) gay rights, or C) neither.
May 12, 2009 - Once More, Without Feeling The GOP's misguided and confused campaign against judicial empathy.
May 11, 2009 - The YouTube Confirmation What Supreme Court shortlisters are saying when they think nobody is listening.
May 8, 2009 - An Unnatural Woman The secret life of a Supreme Court short-lister.
May 5, 2009 - Future Dangerousness The tricky sex offender case that could trip up one of the judges on the short list to replace Souter.
May 4, 2009 - Justice Heartbreaker David Souter leaves the court that left him behind.
May 2, 2009 - Justice Cincinnatus David Souter—a dying breed, the Yankee Republican.
May 1, 2009 - Choose Your Own Supreme Court Justice Out of our Top 20, whom do you like best?
May 1, 2009 - Sordid Business Will the Supreme Court kill the Voting Rights Act?
April 26, 2009 - We're All Torturers Now Will anything about the U.S. torture scandal ever scandalize us again?
April 25, 2009 - Congress Shouldn't Impeach Bybee Much as he deserves it.
April 24, 2009 - Slate on the Torture Investigation Inside the military's interrogation training, why it's time to sympathize with Dick Cheney, and other highlights.
April 22, 2009 - Abolish the White House Counsel And the Office of Legal Counsel, too, while we're at it.
April 22, 2009 - Over It America's quick recovery from its torture program suggests it wasn't a torture program in the first place.
April 17, 2009 - Card Check 2.0 A better fix for union organizing than the Employee Free Choice Act.
April 16, 2009 - The Cruelest Month Another lethal April, another failure to ask why.
April 15, 2009 - The Fairer Sex What do we mean when we say we need more female justices?
April 11, 2009 - Czar Obama The president's incredibly imperialist wielding of executive power.
April 9, 2009 - Noah Webster Gives His Blessing Dictionaries recognize same-sex marriage—who knew?
April 7, 2009 - Spain's Most Wanted: Gonzales in the Dock What the Spanish prosecutions of Bush administration lawyers really means.
April 6, 2009 - And Then They Came for Koh ... If mainstream America can't stand up for Harold Koh, we will get precisely the government lawyers we deserve.
April 1, 2009 - Rascal Flatts The kings of Midwestern prom rock.
April 1, 2009 - Prince's New Album A new protégé and a lot of love for Salma Hayek.
March 31, 2009 - No Vacancy Reading the tea leaves of the Supreme Court's retirement prospects.
March 28, 2009 - Homesteaders in the Hood Squatters are multiplying in the recession—what should cities do?
March 25, 2009 - Irony Board How many ways can Senate Republicans show intellectual hypocrisy?
March 19, 2009 - Franken's Monster Will Bush v. Gore bite Democrats in Coleman v. Franken?
March 18, 2009 - Ice Water and Sweatboxes The long and sadistic history behind the CIA's torture techniques.
March 17, 2009 - Genetic Surveillance for All What if the FBI put the family of everyone who has ever been convicted or arrested into a giant DNA database?
March 17, 2009 - Have the Eyes Had It? Is our eyewitness identification system sending innocents to jail?
March 14, 2009 - Obama, Bush Secret-Keeper What's the president's rationale for keeping so many legal skeletons in the closet?
March 6, 2009 - State of the Union Defining gay marriage for the feds.
March 4, 2009 - Here We Go Again Obama shouldn't get away with the same tricks in al-Marri that Bush got away with in Padilla.
March 3, 2009 - The Better, Cheaper Mortgage Fix How to renegotiate all those bad loans at no cost to the taxpayer.
March 2, 2009 - Lest Ye Be Judged Does America need protection from its out-of-control judges?
Feb. 28, 2009 - Obama's Testing Test Why is the Justice Department on the wrong side of a Supreme Court case about DNA evidence?
Feb. 27, 2009 - Queer Eye for the Libel Guy Should stars really be able to sue for libel if someone says they're gay?
Feb. 27, 2009 - Thou Shalt Not Blog Obama's OLC nominee discovers the perils of "blogging, advocating, and speeching."
Feb. 26, 2009 - Reform School Five myths about prison growth dispelled.
Feb. 19, 2009 - Welcome Back Khadr? Obama's Canada trip is a perfect opportunity to repatriate Gitmo's youngest detainee.
Feb. 19, 2009 - Textual Misconduct What to do about teens and their dumb naked photos of themselves.
Feb. 14, 2009 - Linked Out A case that threatens the right of Web sites to link freely.
Feb. 12, 2009 - See No Evil Why is the Obama administration clinging to an indefensible state-secrets doctrine?
Feb. 10, 2009 - There's a New Lawyer in Town The top 10 cases the Obama Justice Department should redo.
Feb. 9, 2009 - I Need a Hero Seeking a bomb-throwing, passionate, visionary, liberal Scalia for a seat on the Supreme Court.
Feb. 4, 2009 - Law! Law! Law! The terrifying prospect of an America without lawyers.
Jan. 31, 2009 - Cancel Water-Boarding 101 The military should close its torture school. I know because I graduated from it.
Jan. 29, 2009 - Abortion Rights Go Global International courts begin to recognize them—and prompt a backlash.
Jan. 29, 2009 - Let Them Into the House The D.C. Voting Rights Act is probably unconstitutional. Congress should pass it.
Jan. 28, 2009 - Almost Criminal Will the Obama administration shy away from indicting lawbreaking companies?
Jan. 26, 2009 - Project Open Closet When do the legal skeletons come tumbling out of the Justice Department?
Jan. 23, 2009 - Bad Men How many terrorists are really left at Guantanamo, anyway?
Jan. 22, 2009 - John Roberts, Fallible The chief justice and the new president fox-trot all over the oath of office.
Jan. 20, 2009 - All the President's Justices Barack Obama and John Roberts make history as they repeat it.
Jan. 17, 2009 - The Turning Point How the Susan Crawford interview changes everything we know about torture.
Jan. 15, 2009 - Impeach Jay Bybee Why should a suspected war criminal serve as a federal judge?
Jan. 13, 2009 - Law Suit Time to do away with morning wedding attire at the high court.
Jan. 9, 2009 - Revival of Justice What Obama's DoJ appointees should do first.
Jan. 6, 2009
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