Author Archive | Jonathan H. Adler

In today’s Washington Post, George McGovern joins the ranks of those calling for the impeachment of President Bush. As we enter the eighth year of the Bush-Cheney administration, I have belatedly and painfully concluded that the only honorable course for me is to urge the impeachment of the president and the vice president. After the […]

At Legal Ethics Forum, John Steele explores some of the causation and professional responsibility questions at issue in Padilla v. Yoo.

Just in time for the new semester, here are a few items of interest: Drezner’s Worst Student Sentence Contest. Drezner’s Bad Professor Writing Contest. Lambert’s Law Exam Horror Stories. Weaver on “Decanal Legacies.“

On Friday, Rep. Dennis Kucinich filed a petition with the Federal Communications Commission challenging ABCNews’ decision to exclude him from last night’s presidential debate. Kucinich argued that ABC is violating equal-time provisions by keeping him out of the debate and noted that ABC’s parent Walt Disney Co. had contributed to campaigns involving the four Democrats […]

A few months ago, the McCain campaign was down in the polls, virtually broke, and given up for dead. Now he’s back in gear — this year’s comeback kid — and with a strong showing on Tuesday he could become the Republican front runner. Even many conservatives who were once strongly anti-McCain are giving him […]

Yesterday, a divided en banc panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit divided over convicted murderer Stephen Bell’s habeas claim, as well as over whether en banc review should have been granted in his case, Bell v. Bell. Bell was convicted of both first and second degree murder in a Tennessee […]

In 2006, the Lancet published a controversial study finding a substantial, continuing Iraqi death toll in the years following the 2003 U.S. invasion. The study bolstered critics of the Iraq war and prompted substantial debate, online and elsewhere. Neil Munro revisits the Lancet study in the new issue of National Journal. In the ensuing year, […]

Via How Appealing comes news that Jose Padilla is suing John Yoo. A press release announcing the suit declares: John Yoo, the author of legal memos that gave the go-ahead for government agents to use torture against terrorism suspects, was sued this morning in federal court in San Francisco. The lawsuit was brought by Jose […]

California filed suit against the Environmental Protection Agency challenging the EPA’s denial of a waiver of preemption under the Clean Air Act for the state’s greenhouse gas emission regulations. Here’s coverage in the Washington Post and New York Times. One interesting aspect of the suit, discussed here on the Warming Law Blog, is that California […]

Tony Mauro reports on an interesting development in the District of Columbia v. Heller, the pending Second Amendment case before the Supreme Court. Despite his work on the District’s primary brief, Alan Morrison has been fired by the city, apparently because he was seen as a “loyalist” of ousted D.C. attorney Linda Singer. Morrison is […]

On Jan. 1, 1808, it became illegal to import slaves into the United States. Eric Foner reflects about this important, and neglected, anniversary. Jan. 1, 1808, is worth commemorating not only for what it directly accomplished, but for helping to save the United States from a history even more terrible than the Civil War that […]

It’s been quite a varied year for the SSL. We didn’t post a lyric every week, but we seek to have done a good job of covering the waterfront this year. An index for all 2007’s entries follow. Dec. 23 – The Pogues, Fairytale of New York Dec. 16 – N.W.A., F**k the Police Dec. […]

Russell Weaver has an interesting post on the problem of the narcissistic law dean.

Col. Morris Davis once again takes to the pages of the Los Angeles Times, this time to reply to Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann’s response to his criticisms of U.S. military tribunals for Gitmo detainees and his stated reasons for resigning as the chief Gitmo prosecutor. Hartmann says the military commissions are consistent with an American […]

Nanosolar promises solar power at lower cost than coal, Gristmill‘s David Roberts reports. If they can deliver — and the commenters are quite skeptical — it would be a major milestone. Indeed, if solar and other renewable power sources could compete with carbon-based energy sources, it would make a transition to a low-carbon economy relatively […]