I used to have a (semi-crazy) uncle who typically began conversations with lame jokes or bad riddles. This sounds like one he might have used had he lived long enough: What do Thomas Jefferson, a moose, and cyberspace have in common? The answer to that question can be found in a new book, In Search ...

Barack Obama takes office today with a realistic prospect of joining the ranks of history's most powerful presidents....

Barack Obama takes office today with a realistic prospect of joining the ranks of history's most powerful presidents....

Hard to believe that the same man who resigned from the Office of Legal Counsel after nine months of battling the Bush administration over atrociously reasoned legal justifications for torture and limitless presidential power is now arguing that the incoming president should abandon any plans to pro...

Jack Goldsmith: Please, PLEASE Don’t Investigate Me, Mr. Obama! FIRST — A glance at the “Who Is This Guy Anyway???” tagline at the bottom of Mr. Goldsmith’s passionate plea to the Democrats to HALT any and all attempts to ramp up torture investigations under the new... ...

Tacitus, writing of the first Senate meeting after the death of Augustus Caesar (Annals 1.8): Messala Valerius further proposed that the oath of allegiance to Tiberius should be renewed yearly, and when Tiberius asked him whether it was at his bidding that he had brought forward this motion, Valeriu...

Senior lawyers inside and outside the Bush administration repeatedly warned the White House that it was risking judicial scrutiny of its detention policies in Guantanamo Bay if it did not pursue a more pragmatic legal strategy that considered the likely reaction of the Supreme Court. But such......

Senior lawyers inside and outside the Bush administration repeatedly warned the White House that it was risking judicial scrutiny of its detention policies in Guantanamo Bay if it did not pursue a more pragmatic legal strategy that considered the likely reaction of the Supreme Court. But such......

One of the things I agree with Ben Wittes about is the need to get serious about how a next administration is going to fix various aspects of U.S. counterterrorism policy.  That's why one of the things I liked most about Jack Goldsmith's column this week on the rule of law in the "war on terror...

An internal watchdog office at the Justice Department is investigating whether Bush administration lawyers violated professional standards by issuing legal opinions that authorized the CIA to use waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques, officials confirmed yesterday....