Hamdan v. Rumsfeld

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Senator Arlen Specter: One Heck of a Squash Player

Here’s another excellent article from Jeffrey Toobin of the New Yorker. It’s about the role played by Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA), outgoing chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, with respect to the recent habeas corpus legislation (aka the Military Commissions Act of 2006). If you’re confused about the controversy over this legislation, which has wound […]

Hamdan v. Rumsfeld

Neal Katyal: The Paris Hilton of the Legal Elite?

Today’s Wednesday. Guess what that means? Time for another sycophantic profile of Georgetown Law Professor Neal Katyal! Katyal, you surely recall, successfully argued Hamdan v. Rumsfeld before the Supreme Court. For that achievement, he earned a place in the footnotes of legal history — and, even more importantly, an appearance on the Colbert Report. After […]