Why is our justice system designed in such a way that witholding public records related to small-time municipal corruption will get the book thrown at you but conspiring to piss on the US Constitution and enable torture probably won't even get you disbarred?...

The Bush administration lawyers who formulated and justified the worst abuses and excesses of the administration's war on terror conduct are having trouble finding work! They should be having trouble finding judges willing to hear their appeals, but no, instead they're all just bitching about how no...

Brian Tamahana explains exactly how atrocious the legal reasoning is in the OLC memos authored by Yoo, Bybee and (to a lesser extent) Delahunty. Here's an example: Some of the arguments veer into the bizarre. Consider this concluding passage from a Yoo-Delahunty memo arguing that the president can o...

Republican Senator Arlen Spector is opposed to investigating any alleged Bush administration abuses and crimes and I am not surprised. Maybe Spector is reluctant to investigate because he cannot... [Want to read the whole piece? Visit atlargely.com for full links, other content, and more]...

The Obama administration decided to release the DOJ OLC memos relating to the war on terror that the Bush administration had previously fought to keep secret. Unsurprisingly, the nine memos claim vast and sweeping powers on the part of the President to deal with any matter related to terrorism. Esse...

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    Since he took office, President Obama has instituted many changes that break with the policies of the Bush administration. The new president has ordered that no government agency will be allowed to torture, that the U.S. prison at Guantánamo will be shuttered, and that the C...

A newly revealed e-mail indicates the Justice Department was close to completing an internal investigation on senior lawyers who wrote controversial positions on the legality of waterboarding....

John "Loves Torture" Yoo is all upset - poor man - because he is not happy with President Obama. Penning a best-of-Bush-propaganda for the Wall Street Murdoch, Yoo writes the following (apparently his lawyer has not told him to shut up yet): During his first week as commander in chief, President Bar...

I wish I were smart enough to come up with a list like this. The good news is my friends at TP are smart enough. From TP: Next week, “change is coming to America,� as President George W. Bush wraps up his tenure as one of the worst American presidents ever. He wasn’t able to accomplish such a...