Legal reporter Charlie Savage: "The legislation is the latest attack on lawyers representing detainees. Although such lawyers have tended to espouse civil libertarian views, some conservative ...
Charlie Savage on Justice Stevens, April 9: "In cases involving prisoners held without charge at the American naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and the mentally retarded on death row, his ...
No connection, but we'll bring it up anyway: "A law enforcement official said the plot appeared to be unconnected to recent threats against Democratic lawmakers who voted for legislation ...
Obama hearts the "low-key" "genial," "self-deprecating," and of course "pragmatic" Attorney General Eric Holder, in a long profile of Holder that fails to mention his Justice Department's refusal ...
What's gotten into two of the Times' legal reporters? One admits that Obama will surely nominate a liberal to replace the liberal Justice Souter, while the other points out contradictions in ...
