"They always understood that they might someday be called to account for that conduct and always have been prepared to accept full responsibility for it."

"They have done so today." Walter K. Myers, 72, and Gwendolyn Steingraber Myers, 71, step up and take responsibility for 30 years ...

It's up to 882.

Come on! We can hit 1000! Thanks to all the many commenters who hung out with me for the VP debate live-blog, some of whom are still hanging...

Finishing the debate in transcript form, I give the win to Richardson.

I think I got about two thirds of the way through the debate last night. Here 's what I managed to write. I was just about to watch the ...

Should judges accept amicus briefs from former judges?

Here's a conspicuous rejection: A divided panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, which will s...

"This is freedom for us... The tyrant is gone! We can see our country free at last!"

Fidel Castro isn't dead yet -- as far as I can tell -- but the exiles are already celebrating : In South Florida, which with Castro'...

Supreme Court invalidates Guantanamo military commissions.

SCOTUSblog reports: The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that Congress did not take away the Court's authority to rule on the military co...

The Supreme Court turns Padilla away.

Gina Holland reports: "In light of the previous changes in his custody status and the fact that nearly four years have passed since he ...

The argument in Hamdan.

SCOTUSblog describes today's oral argument in the Hamdan case: For the most part, the session was subdued and understated, especially g...

Hamdan and the arcana of jurisdiction stripping.

Linda Greenhouse writes about the Hamdan case, to be argued in the Supreme Court Tuesday: In the face of a measure that Congress passed an...

Listening to Supreme Court arguments.

A reader emails: A few weeks back you mentioned in passing that audio of Supreme Court arguments are available at www.oyez.org In the conte...

"Some of the judges say is they feel they've participated in a Potemkin court."

A federal judge has resigned from his position on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court: [U.S. District Judge James] Robertson indica...

Dylan's "Chronicles": Chapter 5.

Finally, I got around to finishing the last chapter of Dylan's autobiography. I was blogging at the blistering pace of a chapter a day f...

Great Movies.

My son, Christopher Althouse has made this List of the Great Movies. It's not my list, but I like a lot of these movies, and I think it...