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A President's Legacy: The Supreme Court

A Supreme Court nomination, as George Bush has made clear, can be a president's greatest and most lasting legacy. It took bruising battles, but Bush brought real change to the court, which he turned to the right with his successful...

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October 29, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (9)

More Delay for Uighurs

Seventeen former terror suspects who were recently ordered released from Guantanamo Bay and freed into the United States will instead stay imprisoned at the naval base while a federal appeals court panel considers their case. In a brief order filed...

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October 21, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (3)

Blame John Lewis

When John McCain was on the verge of announcing his VP pick, a couple Republican operatives suggested he would do it the day Barack Obama accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination for President. That would steal Obama’s thunder from the historic...

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October 20, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (81)

Just the Other Day

In the South, when you talk about something happening "the other day," you might mean it happened, oh, a decade or two ago. Time is fluid. Past is present. And no time in the region's past is as present as...

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October 14, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (26)

Rabies

Our friend David Brooks, writing in today's New York Times, expands on his remarks earlier this week that Sarah Palin is a "fatal cancer" for the GOP. In a typically thoughtful piece, Brooks traces the history of conservatism, which began...

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October 10, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (96)

Pandora's Box

For years now, the Supreme Court has been issuing a series of lofty opinions sternly reprimanding the Bush Administration for its handling of terror suspects in the wake of 9/11. These decisions, in response to sweeping assertions of executive power,...

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October 9, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (29)

Palin: "A Fatal Cancer" for GOP

Despite the beating conservative columnist Kathleen Parker took from the Right for her recent column skewering Sarah Palin and urging her to withdraw, another prominent conservative is donning a flak jacket and joining the anti-Palin brigade. David Brooks, the New...

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October 8, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (104)

"Terrorists" Among Us?

Expect a flurry of legal moves today over a federal judge’s unprecedented decision yesterday to order 17 former “enemy combatants” at Guantanamo Bay released unsupervised into the Washington, D.C. area by Friday. Late last night, the Bush Administration asked the...

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October 8, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (18)

Coming to America

Delivering a sharp rebuke to the Bush Administration, federal Judge Ricardo Urbina today ordered the government to immediately release into the United States 17 former suspected “enemy combatants” who have been imprisoned seven years at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The ruling—allowing...

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October 7, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (21)

They're Back

The justices returned from their summer break today, and, as always, it felt a whole lot like being back in school after a few carefree months off. You take your assigned seats, whisper hellos to your old pals (Like the...

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October 6, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (5)