The recent Supreme Court term has ended with a flurry of decisions, some of which can only be characterized, charitably, as troubling.
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Promoting Public Safety
Is the criminal justice system broken? If so, how do we best fix it?
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Is This Reform?
As a (relatively) young lawyer, I once attended a party with my husband, an architect, at which I was accosted by another architect who very clearly was not fond of lawyers. He demanded to know what we were going to do about "all these d — d frivolous lawsuits!" When I asked him how he defined "frivolous" he looked at me…
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Gun Power
There is a difference between knowing something intellectually and knowing it viscerally. My husband and I just took a European holiday with two other couples. Each couple had a rental car. This particular day we…
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Government Terrorism
When the media first reported that a White House functionary — later identified as Craig Livingstone -had obtained files containing personal information on Bush Administration employees, a lot of us felt queasy. The image of some partisan operative gloating over private information he might use to benefit his patrons and…
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