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She's Lying
Even some liberals are frustrated by Sonia Sotomayor's carefully plotted answers this week. The Daily Beast's Paul Campos on how she's denying the truth about our legal system.
Sotomayor Overruled
The Supreme Court's overturning of a decision endorsed by Obama's nominee revives a debate over empathy in judging-but do her right-wing critics make an exception for white litigants?
Obama's Hypocrisy on Murder
If he really wants to lock up dangerous criminals, he should forget detaining terror suspects-and go after the hundreds of thousands of known murderers roaming America's streets.
Supreme Court Revolt
Supreme Court candidate Diane Wood is in D.C. today, but even her appointment wouldn't overturn Reaganites' grip on the bench. That's why the Court needs term limits.
How to Torture the Bush Six
Torture-memo authors John Yoo and Jay Bybee will likely not be prosecuted but law professor Paul Campos says the legal profession can punish the men who sanctioned war crimes.
The Court's Other Diversity Problem
Rarer than a lesbian or Latino on the bench: a justice who didn't go to Harvard or Yale. While other speculate on the race and gender of Justice Souter's replacement, Paul Campos explains that SCOTUS' real diversity problem is career path and class, and it wasn't always this way.
Right Decision, Wrong Reason
The Iowa Supreme Court's decision to overturn the state's ban on gay marriage may have achieved a noble end, but Paul Campos writes that the means are "a bunch of question-begging nonsense, poorly disguised by a smokescreen of law talk."
















