Category: Legal Affairs
Is Darwin Losing the Battle With God?
by WS Editors | Jan 1, 2008 | Legal AffairsIN 2004, IN A RURAL ELEMENTARY-SCHOOL CAFETERIA decorated with murals of dancing milk cartons, members of Pennsylvania’s Dover Area School Board shocked local constituents and the national scientific community with a small but significant change in its biology curriculum, requiring students to be made aware of “intelligent design.” At the time, I was a reporter […]
‘Twilight Politics’ in the Shadow of the Blackwater Scandal
by WS Editors | Dec 1, 2007 | Legal Affairs, PoliticsIT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO WATCH the November 14 meeting of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform without feeling some sympathy for the State Department’s Inspector General, Howard “Cookie” Krongard. A report prepared by the committee staff was the playbill for a Capitol Hill drama that would unfold in three acts, with intermissions for […]
Did Karl Rove Help Send an Innocent Man to Jail?
by WS Editors | Nov 15, 2007 | Legal Affairs, PoliticsTHE HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE INVESTIGATION into the political prosecution and conviction of former Alabama governor Don Siegelman, briefly discussed in the November 1 issue, leads inevitably to former senior White House aide Karl Rove. Although Rove has left the White House and is living in Texas, and would probably try to assert executive privilege were his […]
Judging Judge Mukasey
by WS Editors | Oct 1, 2007 | Legal AffairsA Reasonable Judge at Justice?—Choosing a replacement for Alberto Gonzalez did not prove all that easy for George W. Bush. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid made it clear that former solicitor general Theodore B. Olson was damaged if not dead. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff had so badly botched the federal response to Katrina that […]
A Long-Ball Hitter Gets Benched
by WS Editors | Jul 15, 2007 | Legal Affairs, PoliticsON JUNE 5, I. LEWIS “SCOOTER” LIBBY was sentenced to thirty months in prison and fined $250,000 by U.S. District Court Judge Reggie B. Walton, following Libby’s March 6 conviction on four counts of obstruction of justice and perjury. On June 14, Walton ordered the vice president’s former aide to prepare to begin serving his […]
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