Allison Lefrak is a Washington lawyer who represents the last of the Russian detainees, Ravil Mingazov, 43, in the Guantanamo Bay detention center. Her client’s habeas corpus hearing is in two weeks and Lefrak was on the phone with him last week when he told her that inmates in his block – Camp 4, the [...]
Like Politico’s Ben Smith, I was sent by Republican National Committee Spokesman Doug Heye a long list of Democratic National Committee expenditures. I was hesitant to post them (they are below) because the RNC couldn’t provide the Federal Election Commission links to each of the searches and the DNC disputed at least one item: the [...]
Four quick bullet points on Judge Vaughn R. Walker’s decision today in Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation v. Barack Obama. (See pdf of ruling here.) 1. The judge’s opinion is pointed and fiercely critical of the Obama Administration’s Justice Department lawyers. At one point the judge dismisses the government’s “impressive display of argumentative acrobatics.” At another point, [...]
Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson had pledged to resign her Senate seat in her bid for Rick Perry’s governor’s mansion. She lost the GOP gubernatorial primary last month to Perry and today announced that, in fact, she will not resign — as first reported by Reid Wilson over at Hotline. She intends to serve out [...]
This could be big news. The case in question concerns the alleged warrantless wiretapping of two U.S. citizens by the National Security Agency under a controversial Bush Administration plan, which has since been altered and codified into law. The U.S. citizens, both lawyers for the al-Haramain Islamic Foundation, discovered evidence suggesting that they had been [...]
I’m a big fan of epigraphs, so much so that I even sometimes put them on blog posts, which is a bit like putting a plaque on a sand castle. So I am heartened to discover that a number of this spring’s new releases come with great epigraphs, which are far easier blogged about than [...]
