Shortfalls Unraveled Stevens’s Conviction
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on April 12th, 2009 4:31 am by HL
Shortfalls Unraveled Stevens’s Conviction
The Justice Department team charged with prosecuting former senator Ted Stevens miscalculated by not seeking more time to prepare for the high-stakes corruption trial and fell victim to inexperience and thin staffing, which contributed to its alleged mishandling of witnesses and evidence, according…
Partisans Argue Over Partisanship
President Obama has already made a down payment on many of his campaign promises. But a noisy and partisan debate has erupted over whether he has even begun to make good on his pledge to turn the page on the divisive politics of the past.
Ginsburg Gives No Hint Of Giving Up the Bench
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The symposium on Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s life on and before the Supreme Court had all the trappings of a grand finale: laudatory tributes, scholarly evaluations of her jurisprudence, a running theme about her love of opera and her unfulfilled desire to be a great diva.