Sep 11th, 2008
Terrorism, which was one of the top issues for much of the Bush presidency, has basically faded from view this campaign. The stats, as reported in the Washington Post are staggering: Once the key concern that propelled Republicans to big electoral victories in 2002 and 2004, terrorism has often seemed the forgotten issue of 2008. [...]
Jul 17th, 2008
If we bend the rules in investigating and prosecuting it, it might lead to problems in civilian courts.
Jul 10th, 2008
I’ve been doing some reporting on terrorism prosecutions and ran across a pretty interesting 2005 NYU law review paper by Lee Epstein et al that looked at every single civil rights and liberties U.S. Supreme Court decision from 1941 through 2001. It turns out that during wartime, in non-war-related cases, if a litigant claims his [...]
Freedom-haters in our midst
Sep 7th, 2008
WordPress lets me see what people are searching for on the search engines before they arrive at my blog. I just saw “why is terrorism a bad thing?” come up. Someone searched for the answer to that question earlier today and stumbled upon a post I had on terrorism. I think one of my favorite [...]
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