How to Judge a Potential Justice
May 2nd, 2010
By Dan Miller Lawyers are strange critters. Frustrations have long been expressed that decisions of the Supreme Court and of lower appellate courts, written by lawyers, are so damn long and complicated that only brother members of the world’s oldest profession can understand them. Shakespeare is credited with the phrase, “Let’s kill all the lawyers,” […]
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Lawyers and Terrorists
March 15th, 2010
By Tom Carter Liz Cheney, the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, has been creating a lot of heat lately by loudly criticizing the Justice Department for hiring attorneys who formerly represented terrorist clients at Guantanamo. Cheney is wrong. Under our system of justice, every defendant is entitled to be represented by an attorney. […]
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Tags: detainees, Guantanamo, lawyers, terrorism, terrorists
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