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Many of you have no doubt seen horrible images out of Israel, following an arrest by IDF military police of several reservists suspected of ...

The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has ordered the district court to reconsider an evidentiary ruling  against Rasmieh...

This past March, I commented on the Eighth Circuit's en banc decision in Zink v. Lombardi , which rejected a challenge to Missouri'...

This is a great chart : The x-axis shows the five years before and after a country ratified the CAT. Year 0 is the year that the countr...

Come to law school for the makeup class, stay for the workshop (actually going to the makeup class is apparently optional). * * * Former Uta...

Former Bush administration official John Yoo has finally found a limit on executive power : Forcing federal contractors to disclose contribu...

Jill's on vacation, and I'm not studying. Or blogging. Or doing anything remotely productive. I did walk to Chipotle. * * * Four sol...

In late 2007, I declared that the upcoming presidential election "is about torture" . I was wrong. It wasn't. Despite my asser...

So how about the big game this weekend, eh? * * * Exonerated accused rapist forms a bond with the woman whose erroneous accusation put him...

A. Bout. Time.

Iranian Presidential candidate Mehdi Karoubi : Our security agents are "worse than Zionists". Snap.

Why aren't we clear yet?

This one's been flying around the internet, but I want to link too : We’ve got what amounts to a reverse Nuremberg defense, where Bush a...

How is it, I wonder, that asking for a mere investigation into the people who ordered torture (and lied about it) makes you a crazy person,...

UN Watch ambushes Libya at the UN Durban Review Conference preparatory meeting . Libya, for reasons that, depending on your perspective, are...

The state secrets doctrine was no fun when the Bush administration used it to cover up American complicity in torture, and it remains equal...

Some days the world just works out. One of those days is when anti-torture advocate Marty Lederman takes the job formerly held by John Yoo.

The cease-fire between Israel and Hamas is holding up so far, but that doesn't mean Hamas is behaving peacefully. Instead, it seems to b...

Travel means falling behind on my tabs. Here are some things that caught my eye: Don't mess with Valerie Jarrett . The Agricultural Secr...

Speaking of things that kill Americans, perhaps Justice Scalia should read this piece by an American military interrogator about the fruit...