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A Little Habeas for Your Corpus

June 11, 2007June 25, 2009 John Ali al-Marri, Archibald Cox, Attorney General, DWI, Elliot Richardson, Genarlow Wilson, Georgia, Judge Reggie Walton, Nixon, Paris Hilton, Robert Bork, Scooter Libby, sexual offender, Solicitor General, toilet paper, William Ruckelshaus

Wow, the courts have sure been busy lately. They given us lots of fun stuff to cover. Let’s see what we have:

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Liberal Media Ignoring Al Qaeda Torture Manuals?

June 2, 2007 John Al Qaeda, Glenn Greenwald, Neoconservative, Saloncom, torture

Last week the U.S. Military reported finding Al Qaeda torture manuals in a “safe house” in Iraq. The pro-torture wingnuts are all atwitter with the news, as they get out there to say, “they do it too.” As if that’s all the license the U.S. needs to condone torture.

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Thought Crimes? Oh Really

May 25, 2007 John Hate Crimes, Hate Crimes Prevention Act, Juvenile Justice, Krazy Kristian Kooks, religious right

There is a story making the rounds you can expect to see the religious right latch onto in their desperate attempts to paint the pending Hate Crimes Legislation as something that will make “thoughts” illegal. They’re even calling it the “Thought Crimes” Bill. This is about the case of a 16-year-old teen in Crystal Lake, Illinois who was arrested for passing out a flyer?

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Miracle on DOJ Street

May 24, 2007May 24, 2007 John Alberto Gonzales, Attorney General, Crooks and Liars, Department of Justtice, DOJ, Kyle Sampson, Monica Goodling, Paul McNulty, Steve Benen, U.S. Attorney

Steve Benen, in a post at Crooks and Liars makes an excellent point about the U.S. Attorney firings. It seems that all these high ranking Justice Department officials have been asked who created the list of the U.S. Attorneys to be fired, and none of them know. I guess given Bush’s divine dispensation, it just floated down from heaven.

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Good Old Fashioned Christian Morality

May 23, 2007May 24, 2007 John Bombs, Jerry Falwell, Liberty University, Mark D Uhl, religious right

Campbell County authorities arrested a Liberty University student for having several homemade bombs in his car. The student, 19-year-old Mark D. Uhl of Amissville, Va., reportedly told authorities that he was making the bombs to stop protesters from disrupting the funeral service.