Judge: Bolten and Miers must testify

A Washington, D.C. federal judge ruled Thursday that members of the administration do not enjoy absolute immunity from the reach of congressional subpoenas.
This is an answer to a legal conundrum that has been developing for a long time, as the Democratic Congress has pushed for answers from the White House over the U.S attorney scandal, [...]

BREAKING NEWS: Favre just wants to play football

Multiple sources are now confirming that Brett Favre is really just a boy at heart, playing a boy’s game. That, of course, can be the only reason he turned down $20 million from the Packers to stay retired. This is like an ex-lover paying you to stay away, which, actually, does happen, I suppose.
The blog [...]

John Roberts: No health info

 
It was a year ago that reports surfaced from Maine that Chief Justice John Roberts had suffered some sort of seizure at his summer home.
This week, Tony Mauro, the skilled Supreme Court correspondent for Legal Times, attempted to discover the state of the chief justice’s health, sending him a series of writen questions about whether Roberts, [...]

Don’t cry for them, Argentina?

The large law-firm world normally is fairly impervious to the economic roller-coaster.
Like Jerry Seinfeld, they typically are broad-based enough to be “even-steven.” If corporate work sours because of a downbeat business climate, then, hey, bankruptcy, foreclosures and litigation overall soars. Angry, dissatisfied, and desperate people sue.
But once in a while, a law firm’s foundation begins to [...]

Shield law can’t make it out alive

Proponents of a bill that would help journalists protect confidential sources failed Wednesday to muster enough votes to move the legislation forward for a vote.
Supports still hope the move the bill, which has bipartisan support, by the end of the year. A compromise piece of legislation brokered by Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) appears to have [...]

Actual t-shirt. . .

seen at the Crystal City Metro station around 8:30 p.m. Wednesday.
It reads:
SCALIA IS MY HOMEBOY
Okay, I am no constitutional scholar (just ask Prof. Goldberger), but I’m fairly sure the Framers didn’t call each other “homeboy.” However, attendees at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia were not allowed to talk about their internal deliberations, so we can’t [...]

BREAKING NEWS: Favre has lunch

We are receiving a report now that the president of the Green Bay Packers, Mark Murphy, flew to Hattiesburg, Miss. today to personally meet with Brett Favre and ask him not to report to camp.
According to multiple sources, Favre left the building where the meeting was held about 1:30 p.m.
There is no word on what [...]

At Gitmo, Amnesty International calls Hamdan proceedings unfair

 
The international human-rights group Amnesty International Wednesday released a blow-by-blow account of the first week of the Guantanamo Bay trial of Salim Ahmed Hamdan, accused of supporting terrorism by, among other things, being Osama bin Laden’s driver.
Hamdan’s trial, which began last week, is the first under the Pentagon’s re-worked military commission system. In 2006, acting on [...]

Mukasey says DOJ suffered from ‘institutional weakness’

 
Attorney General Michael Mukasey Wednesday sent a letter to all employees of the Justice Department, repudiating the actions of former department official Monica Goodling and others who, a recent report said, made politically motivated hiring decisions.
Goodling was White House liaison while the department was run by Alberto Gonzales, himself the former White House counsel. A [...]

Rove held in contempt (by Democrats)

The House Judiciary Committee this morning voted to hold former Bush adviser Karl Rove in contempt of Congress.
The vote, which broke down along party lines, wasn’t a surprise. Rove has refused all requests from the committee to appear and testify and ignored congressional subpoenas. Rep. John Conyers, the committee’s chairman, wants Rove to answer questions [...]