Henning [Wayne State]: Initial Booker Musings for White Collar Cases
Peter Henning, Wayne State University Law School:"At the risk of speaking without thoroughly reviewing all the opinions (wading through Justice Scalia's attack, which includes a reference to "Wonderland"; will have to wait), a couple initial impressions (with quotes). For a...
D'Amato [Northwestern]: Protecting the President from prosecution
Anthony D'Amato, Northwestern University Law School:"Although the N.Y. Times and Washington Post have been admirably accurate in reporting the standard legal issues, they have overlooked the single most telling point in the debate about Gonzales, perhaps because of its subtlety.We...
Justice Department defends its civil rights prosecution record
Reacting to a new report concluding that federal enforcement of civil rights laws declined sharply during the Bush administration, a Justice Department spokesman has said that "this administration believes in and has vigorously enforced the criminal civil rights laws."...
Civil rights record of the Bush administration [US Commission on Civil Rights]
US Commission on Civil Rights staff report released October 5, 2004 ....
Judge Victor Marrero, United States Distrcit Court, Southern District of New York, September 29, 2004 . Read the opinion...
JURIST Guest Columnist LTC John M. Bickers, a law professor at the US Military Academy at West Point, says that two recent decisions regarding the death penalty show that the Supreme Court seems to accept capital sentencing as a punishment,...
In past elections, so-called "faithless electors" cast innocuously eccentric votes that provided a quaint reminder of one of the archaic curiosities of the presidential selection process. After providing a rare element of surprise in the otherwise perfunctory Electoral College ritual,...
