The DOJ Seven, Michael Mukasey’s take
Former Attorney General (and federal district court judge) Michael Mukasey provides his view of how to regard (or, more precisely, how not to regard) Justice Department lawyers who represented terrorist detainees. The article, which is “subscription only,” appears in the Wall Street Journal.
Here are, perhaps, the two key paragraphs:
It is plainly prudent for [...]
Willful blindness: The return
As a matter of national security doctrine the Obama has blinded itself to the phenomenon of Islamist terrorism. One can observe the administration’s public teaching at work in John Brennan’s pandering performance to a largely Muslim audience at the NYU Islamic Center this past weekend.
Michelle Malkin notes that among those in [...]
Courting Intimidation: Supremes May Shut Down Cameras in SSM Case
In the long-running soap opera “As the Marital Definition Turns” — that is, the case underway in federal court in San Francisco, where plaintiffs are trying to overturn the initiative constitutional amendment Proposition 8 that re-re-established traditional marriage in America’s biggest state — I reported a couple of days ago that the judge in the [...]
Courting Intimidation of Witnesses: the SEIU-ization of Liberalism
A trial starts Monday in San Francisco that could overturn the will of the people in 45 of the 50 states; U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker (Bush-41) will preside over a federal court case that seeks to overturn Proposition 8 in California — the state initiative constitutional amendment that itself overturned a California Supreme [...]
Judicial Home Invasion
This story utterly nonplusses me; not that a judge would want to make a bigotted, anti-Christian decision — I expect that — but that she would have the reasonable belief that she’d be allowed to do so by the appellate courts in New Hampshire, or any other state. (Full disclosure: I am not [...]
Another Charming Gitmo Detainee
In the most recent habeas decision handed down by a D.C. District Court judge, the court ruled that Gitmo detainee Adham Mohammed Ali Awad is properly held in U.S. custody.
The judges’ habeas rulings have been remarkably uneven, frequently leaving out key facts or applying inconsistent or unreasonable standards for weighing evidence.
For example, the [...]
