Don’t Call the Cavalry Homicides have soared since the president deployed the army in Juárez in January of 2008. In 2007 there were 317 reported killings; in 2008, 1,623; in 2009 the number reached 2,754.   Judith Torrea is a Spanish journalist who reports on drug-trafficking, organized crime, the death penalty, and immigration. Her work […]

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How Frivolous is Frivolous? “I don’t want to say that they are out and out frivolous. But it’s extraordinarily unlikely that the Supreme Court will be sympathetic. Unless they want to provoke the greatest constitutional crisis since the 1930s.” —Constitutional Law Professor Sanford Levinson AT THE AGE OF 12 I jumped from the back of […]

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The Fourth Amendment Vindicated—If the Al-Haramain v. Obama case had been a prize fight, the judge would have stopped it two years ago, when it was still styled Al-Haramain v. Bush. It has long been evident that the plaintiffs were subjected to wiretapping. It was also evident that if there had been a warrant for […]

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No Sense of Decency “It never occurred to me on the day that Defense Department lawyer Rebecca Snyder and Lt. Cmdr. William Kuebler of the Navy appeared in my law firm’s offices to ask for our assistance in carrying out their duties as military defense lawyers that the young lawyer who worked with me on […]

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Tea For Texas —News reports had the Tea Party candidate losing the Texas Republican primary, as Houston nurse and Ron Paul disciple Debra Medina won only 18 percent of the vote in the governor’s race. Medina, who wanted to eliminate property taxes and ensure that citizens are better armed than the police, might have staked […]

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