Author: Steven D

If there’s one thing we’ve learned about the Bush administration and Iraq, it’s don’t mess with Dick Cheney’s corporate buddies at Halliburton and KBR. If you do, you end up like this poor man, a...

Yes, Republicans in Congress are people too. They do care about people. And they will do something magnanimous on occasion. At least, when they can identify with one of their own who has suffered a great loss in his or her own...

As you read it (h/t to the field negro), ask yourself these questions: Would this have happened to a white woman who was stopped for a busted tail light on her car? And if it did, what would you expect from our justice system?...

Actually, my title isn’t precisely accurate. But, bear with me a minute, because though the majority decision in BOUMEDIENE v. BUSH to allow Gitmo detainees the right to challenge their detentions in the federal courts...

The Supreme Court’s opinion on the Military Commissions Act was just issued today. I don’t have a copy of the opinion yet, but, according to news reports, by a 5-4 decision in which Justice Kennedy wrote the majority...