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• Michael Moore Served Subpoena By Bush Administration

  Published: July 27, 2007, 10:05 pm

  Tags: Judicial Issues, Health Science, George W Bush

  (from MichaelMoore.com) Via Raw Story: Filmmaker Michael Moore revealed on Thursday’s “The Tonight Show” with Jay Leno that the Bush Administration had served him with a subpoena regarding his recent trip to Cuba made as part of his new film, Sicko.Moore told the audience that he was notified of the subpoena backstage.

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• Sunday Talking Head Thread

  Published: July 29, 2007, 8:15 am

  Tags: Us Attorneys Purge, Judicial Issues, Sunday Morning Talk Shows

  (Photo of iced coffee via Kanko*.) The Sunday Talking Head line-up is ready for the reading the morning. Based on the scheduled guests, it looks like Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and his tenuous relationship with honesty will be Topic A for most of the shows. Jane at FDL and Anonymous Liberal, along with Emptywheel at Next Hurrah, have

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• Kenneth Foster, Jr.

  Published: August 1, 2007, 7:10 pm

  Tags: Judicial Issues, Civil Liberties

  Sean Paul Kelley at the Agonist speaks about the man awaiting execution for the murder of his friend.

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• Katrina Victims Lose In Appeals Court

  Published: August 3, 2007, 9:34 am

  Tags: Judicial Issues, Hurricane Katrina

  Yahoo News (h/t NonnyMouse) Hurricane Katrina victims whose homes and businesses were destroyed when floodwaters breached levees in the 2005 storm cannot recover money from their insurance companies for the damages, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday. The case could affect thousands of rebuilding residents and business owners in Louisiana.

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• BREAKING: Two more provisions of Patriot Act struck down (UPDATED with video)

  Published: September 27, 2007, 11:49 am

  Tags: Judicial Issues, Intelligence Gathering, Wapo, Nsa Wiretapping

  Download (0)   Play (0)  Download (0)   Play (0) And we have lots to celebrate because a federal judge cited a provision of a little-used document known as “The Bill of Rights.” Wapo: A federal judge in Oregon ruled Wednesday that two provisions of the USA Patriot Act are unconstitutional, marking

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• Judge rules: Bush can't hide Presidential records indefinitely.

  Published: October 2, 2007, 10:10 pm

  Tags: Freedom Of Information, Ethics, Judicial Issues, Liars, George W Bush

  [click for larger] AP via Think Progress: The ruling was made in a lawsuit filed by the American Historical Association and other organizations, which argued that Bush's Executive Order 13,233 was an impermissible exercise of the executive power. A bill that would overturn the order is pending in the Senate.

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• The wrong choice for Attorney General

  Published: October 19, 2007, 8:01 pm

  Tags: Judicial Issues, The Senate, Torture, White House

  After Alberto Gonzales' humiliating and painful tenure as the nation's chief law-enforcement officer, I was beginning to get my hopes up about Attorney General nominee Michael Mukasey. Right off the bat on Wednesday, he rejected the infamous Bybee memo, and compared U.S. torture policies to Nazi Germany. The rest of the day was nearly as

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• Courtroom Drama, Mistrial, in Terror Case

  Published: October 23, 2007, 1:39 pm

  Tags: Civil Liberties, Government Policy, Intelligence Gathering, Judicial Issues, Terrorism

  Reason why we aren’t trying more terror cases? The jury comes back to courtroom with verdict of not guilty and three jurors allegedly jump up and say “that is not the verdict!” AP: …chaos broke out in the court in Texas when three jurors disputed some verdicts that had been announced. Weirdness in the court. NBC:

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• The Courage to Resist: Watada To Face Court Martial Tomorrow

  Published: November 8, 2007, 3:46 pm

  Tags: Judicial Issues, Military

  (guest blogged by miss kitty) “No person shall be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb ” Excerpted from the Fifth Amendment of the United States of America So what is happening with Lt. Ehren Watada? Znet: The double jeopardy clause of the US Constitution ensures that no American can

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• Bush's Sixteenth Century Concept of Judicial Conduct'

  Published: November 24, 2007, 8:15 pm

  Tags: Ethics, George W Bush, Habeas Corpus, Judicial Issues, Torture

  No, it’s not a remake of the movie. This is the sad but true story of Al-Timimi and Omar Khadr, and the desecration of justice under Bush. Reports have begun to circulate that the Administration has put together a group of scholars headed by a right-wing activist judge to craft legislation to introduce a new court of Star Chamber,

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• Appeals court strikes down faith-based prison program

  Published: December 3, 2007, 6:49 pm

  Tags: Judicial Issues, Religion, Religious Right

  It seems hard to believe in a country that honors church-state separation, but Prison Fellowship Ministries, founded by ex-Watergate felon Charles Colson, was effectively given an entire wing of Iowa's Newton Correctional Facility a few years ago, and Colson's group created what was basically a state-sponsored evangelism program (called

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• Anatomy of a Failure: How America Lost the War on Drugs

  Published: December 3, 2007, 5:41 pm

  Tags: Government Policy, Judicial Issues

  Great new read by Ben Wallace-Wells in this month’s Rolling Stone that exposes how the $500 Billion spent on the Drug War over the last 35 years has been all but a complete waste of time and money, and an absolute failure by any standard of measure. [A]fter U.S. drug agents began systematically busting up the Colombian cartels - doubt was

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• Bush League Justice

  Published: December 11, 2007, 12:46 pm

  Tags: Government Policy, Hackery, Judicial Issues, Msnbc, White House

  Download (1546)   Play (1740)  Download (1002)   Play (826) Dan Abrams began a new series Monday chronicling the politicization of the Civil Rights Department of the DOJ under George W. Bush. Politicization would be a polite euphemism for turning the very basis for the creation of a Civil Rights Department

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• Face The Nation: Gingrich Thinks SCOTUS Gitmo Decision “Could Cost Us A City”

  Published: June 15, 2008, 8:00 pm

  Tags: Face The Nation Bob Schieffer, Guantanamo, Habeas Corpus, Judicial Issues, Newt Gingrich

  Download   Play  Download   Play (h/t Heather) Lord, save us from the idiot pundit class. The smackdown the Supreme Court gave the Bush administration is making the GOP very unhappy. I mean, how dare we consider a fundamental building block of justice since the Magna Carta anything less than an unacceptable

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