Recent Posts Tagged With 'law and the courts'

• Tiger Woods: Burying the Lede

  Posted on Saturday December 26th, 2009 at 08:30 in Tiger Woods, violence, ann althouse, james joyner, law and the courts

  Buried several paragraphs into a NY Daily News story on the Tiger Woods soap opera: Us Weekly magazine, citing a source who spoke with other pro golfers, reported that Nordegren was told by a friend her husband was having an affair. She then roused W...

• Microsoft Word Patch Intentionally Decreases Functionality

  Posted on Wednesday December 23rd, 2009 at 15:00 in Microsoft, james joyner, science & technology, law and the courts

  In response to a court order, Microsoft is issuing a “patch” that makes Word 2007 less useful. The 2007 Microsoft Office OPK Master Kit Download, available on Microsoft’s OEM Partner Center, strips Word and other Office programs of ...

• Sheriff Joe Arpaio Corrupt Thug and Bully

  Posted on Friday December 18th, 2009 at 13:55 in james joyner, law and the courts

  Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio may be nationally famous as a “tough on crime” peace officer, but he’s a thug of the highest order, the editors of The Arizona Republic charge in a blistering broadside, and the governor and attorn...

• White House: Dismiss John Yoo Lawsuit

  Posted on Wednesday December 9th, 2009 at 06:12 in Security, Government, torture, employee, George W. Bush, US Politics, bush administration, executive privilege, james joyner, obama administration, law and the courts

  The Obama administration is fighting to dismiss Jose Padilla’s lawsuit against John Yoo, citing executive privilege. The Obama administration has asked an appeals court to dismiss a lawsuit accusing former Bush administration attorney John Yoo ...

• Miranda Rights Rewrite Under SCOTUS Review

  Posted on Tuesday December 8th, 2009 at 06:26 in Police, supreme court, Florida, US Politics, samuel alito, james joyner, law and the courts, sonia sotomayor

  The Supreme Court is considering making the Miranda warning more explicit. The Supreme Court on Monday seemed headed toward telling police they must explicitly advise criminal suspects that their lawyer can be present during any interrogation. The ar...

• That’s What I Call A Loophole…

  Posted on Wednesday November 25th, 2009 at 11:42 in Barack Obama, US Politics, loopholes, matthew yglesias, rahm emmanuel, law and the courts, alex knapp

  In discussing legal possibilities vs. tradition vis a vis the Senate filibuster rules, Matthew Yglesias pens an interesting legal scenario. After all, a lot of things are possible in our system. To the best of my understanding, nothing is stopping Ra...

• Did Texas Ban Marriage?

  Posted on Thursday November 19th, 2009 at 07:04 in texas, marriage, constitution, gay marriage, james joyner, law and the courts

  Barbara Ann Radnofsky, a Democratic candidate for Texas attorney general, claims a 2005 constitutional amendment designed to ban gay marriages actually bans all marriages. The amendment, approved by the Legislature and overwhelmingly ratified by vote...

• OTB Radio – Tonight at 5:30 Eastern

  Posted on Wednesday November 18th, 2009 at 16:23 in National Security, blogtalkradio, khalid sheikh mohammed, national debt, sarah palin, james joyner, law and the courts, dave schuler, alex knapp, economics and business, otb radio, steve verdon

  The next episode of OTB Radio, our BlogTalkRadio program, will record and air live from 5:30-6:30 Eastern. Dave Schuler and I will talk about Sarah Palin’s comeback tour and ensuing controversies and President Obama’s Asia trip.  Alex Kn...

• Pfizer Abandons Property It Stole From Kelo

  Posted on Wednesday November 18th, 2009 at 14:01 in crime, US Politics, pfizer, kelo v. new london, law and the courts, alex knapp, economics and business

  I missed this story last week, but apparently Pfizer is abandoning its New London headquarters, and the land that it used the power of government to steal from Kelo et al. now lays fallow. Susette Kelo’s little, pink house in New London, Conn. ...

• Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Show Trial

  Posted on Wednesday November 18th, 2009 at 11:04 in terrorism, National Security, evidence, khalid sheikh mohammed, james joyner, jim geraghty, military tribunal, eric holder, law and the courts

  In my initial posting on the Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Trial, I asserted that “there’s an incredibly good chance that Mohammed and his comrades will go free.  The fact that KSM was repeatedly waterboarded would seem to taint any subsequent evid...

• 75 Gitmo Detainees in Limbo

  Posted on Wednesday November 18th, 2009 at 10:08 in terrorism, Guantánamo, National Security, evidence, marc ambinder, james joyner, spencer ackerman, obama administration, law and the courts

  Marc Ambinder finds a hidden news story in this WaPo report by Perry Bacon: Administration officials say they expect that as many as 40 of the 215 detainees at Guantanamo will be tried in federal court or military commissions. About 90 others have be...

• Terrorism vs. Crime

  Posted on Tuesday November 17th, 2009 at 10:07 in terrorism, james joyner, law and the courts

  From left: Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, Waleed bin Attash, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Mustafa Ahmad al-Hawsawi and Ramzi Binalshibh. (AP) Responding to Attorney General Eric Holder’s explanation that Khalid Sheik Mohammed is being tried in civilian courts...

• Kelo Follow Up

  Posted on Friday November 13th, 2009 at 16:52 in Government, bureaucracy, US Politics, law and the courts, economics and business, steve verdon

  Well looks like the entire town of New London, Conn. is going to get screwed by Pfizer. “Look what they did,” Mr. Cristofaro said on Thursday. “They stole our home for economic development. It was all for Pfizer, and now they get up and walk aw...

• Bear Stearns Jurors: I’d Invest With Them

  Posted on Wednesday November 11th, 2009 at 06:05 in conspiracy, evidence, financial crisis, james joyner, law and the courts, economics and business

  Not only did the government lose its case against two top Bear Stearns managers but at least one juror came away wanting to invest with them. Prosecutors missed the mark so widely in the fraud trial of Bear Stearns Cos. hedge fund managers Ralph Ciof...

• Hasan a Muslim First, American Second?

  Posted on Saturday November 7th, 2009 at 10:57 in muslim, mental health, Islam, war on terror, afghanistan, suicide bombings, john russell, military affairs, fort hood, james joyner, spencer ackerman, law and the courts

  In hindsight, it appears that Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the mass murderer who killed 14 (one of the soldiers killed, Francheska Velez, was six weeks pregnant) and wounded another 30 at Fort Hood, had long made it known that he sympathized with the ene...

• Do You Have the Right Not To Be Framed?

  Posted on Wednesday November 4th, 2009 at 10:59 in Free, Police, wordpress, obama, supreme court, law, time, iowa, 10, justice, prosecutorial misconduct, ice

  The Supreme Court hears oral argument today in Pottawattamie County v McGee, wherein they will have to decide if prosecutors have immunity from lawsuits even if they frame someone for murder. On one side of the case being argued are Iowa prosecutors ...

• Martians Can’t Sue

  Posted on Friday October 30th, 2009 at 10:13 in illegal immigration, instapundit, borders and immigration, glenn reynolds, james joyner, law and the courts, eugene volokh

  Eugene Volokh brings to our attention, rather belatedly, the case of Joly v. Pelletier, in which Rene Joly brought a suit some ten years ago alleging that Pelletier and others had conspired to suppress evidence that he was a Martian.  The judge dism...