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John Tanner, late of the Voting Rights Section, writes a letter to Mary Frances Berry after being caught on email saying that he wants his coffee “Mary Frances Berry style: black and bitter.” He shoulda stood in bed. Eric Holder’s problem is what to do with all the folks just like him now burrowed in to civil service positions at DoJ.
Archive for January, 2009
January 14th, 2009
Category: Crime Control
When a cop who has a personal animus against someone looks for an excuse to search his enemy, thinks he’s found an excuse, searches him, finds contraband, but turns out to have been wrong about the excuse for the search, the victim of the unlawful search goes to prison just the same. Roberts wins bonus [...]
January 14th, 2009
Category: Literature
When Jefferson made a reading list for a friend, he excluded Plato, Aristotle, Thyucidides, Hesiod, the pre-Socratic philosophers, and the Greek dramatists. What’s up with that?
January 14th, 2009
Now that thought experiments are in (or maybe not), perhaps this is in order: WASHINGTON, August 9, 1862 — Bowing to international pressure, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln lifted the Federal Government’s naval blockade against southern rebels, who call themselves the “Confederate States of America.” European sources, most particularly the British and French governments, have repeatedly [...]
January 13th, 2009
Category: Law Notes, Middle East Politics
Against Walzer’s just-war op-ed on Gaza.
January 13th, 2009
Category: Corruption in Washington, Law Notes
Maybe state attorneys general or district attorneys can bring corruption and war crimes charges.
January 12th, 2009
Category: Israel, Religion and Politics
The Knesset’s action reminds me of an old story.
January 12th, 2009
Category: Torture
Perhaps Bush, Cheney, Ashcroft, Rumsfeld, Addington, and Yoo should be detained outside the U.S. and subjected to enhanced methods of interrogation to discover which of their actions that in fact made the country weaker were intended to do so: to find the Islamofascist mole or moles who must surely have been making U.S. policies over the past eight years.
January 12th, 2009
Save the planet if not Gaza: fire Tony Blair as Middle East envoy.