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23 Feb 2010, 10:24 am by Tom Goldstein
As we turn the corner to the second half of the Supreme Court’s Term, the inevitable conjecture begins about retirements. [read post]
20 Feb 2010, 8:55 am by pfriedman
Jack Goldsmith found that the memoranda were "riddled with error," concluded that key portions were "plainly wrong," .and characterized them as a "one-sided effort to eliminate any hurdles posed by the torture law. [read post]
19 Feb 2010, 5:39 pm by John Steele
The DOJ’s report on the OLC torture memos is finally out. [read post]
14 Feb 2010, 3:28 am by charonqc
  Brown may yet be skewered by the Grand Inquisitioners at the Iraq Inquiry who will know that he does not have the slick eloquence of Tony Blair, the smooth lawyer skills of Lord Goldsmith or the King Richard III cunning of Jack Straw. [read post]
13 Feb 2010, 8:25 am by Jonathan H. Adler
Like former Bush Justice Department offiicals James Comey and Jack Goldsmith, I think some of the criticisms of the Obama Administration’s decision to try KSM in a civilian court are overblown. [read post]
3 Feb 2010, 6:29 pm by Kenneth Anderson
 A lot of people have pointed out that Congress seems never to want to have to put itself on the line in this national security stuff — Jack Goldsmith, Ben Wittes, Stuart Taylor, me — have all said this one way or another over the years. [read post]
3 Feb 2010, 4:53 pm by Tom Parker
Senior members of the Blair government like Jack Straw (Foreign Secretary) and Lord Goldsmith (Attorney-General) have already testified and the current Prime Minister Gordon Brown is expected to do so soon. [read post]
31 Jan 2010, 11:36 pm by charonqc
  Jack Straw, Lord Chancellor ignored this advice and took the view that as he had chanced it before the courts while at The Home Office and won, he would regard the war as lawful and Lord Goldsmith, who initially took the the view that the war was unlawful, had a Damascus moment after a visit to the United States etc etc etc. [read post]
27 Jan 2010, 1:19 pm by charonqc
   The Foreign secretary, Jack Straw, rejected Sir Michael’s advice. [read post]
26 Jan 2010, 11:40 pm by charonqc
I commented on yesterday’s proceedings at the Iraq Inquiry below: Breaking News: What will Jack do now? [read post]
26 Jan 2010, 11:12 am by charonqc
It is very clear that this advice was not to Jack Straw’s taste and, equally clear that it was not to the prime minister’s taste. [read post]
22 Jan 2010, 11:03 am by Kenneth Anderson
It is clear that jihadist recruitment is extending to US citizens, and, as Jack Goldsmith says in a recent book chapter, in defining the universe of people subject to administrative detention, it "should extend to US citizens as well as aliens. [read post]
19 Jan 2010, 1:53 pm by charonqc
  Jack Straw, if he can pull a statutory instrument out of the hat before the May election, is at least making a start. [read post]
14 Jan 2010, 12:10 pm by dsd2
This topic is likely to be addressed to some degree in the Law School's upcoming Sumner Canary Lecture on Cyber Terrorism by Jack Landman Goldsmith - don't miss what promises to be a timely, interesting discussion. [read post]
7 Jan 2010, 9:53 am by Daithí
As I have said from a number of platforms, most recently in a media law class in December, the best analysis of the theoretical attraction and practical downside of Sealand is to be found in Jack Goldsmith & Tim Wu’s Who Controls The Internet? [read post]
7 Jan 2010, 2:36 am by sally
“The Iraq inquiry has resumed this week, promising crucial witnesses — Tony Blair, Jack Straw, Lord Goldsmith and possibly Gordon Brown.We have been told repeatedly what it is not: a trial, an inquest, an inquisition, a court, a statutory inquiry. [read post]
5 Jan 2010, 1:37 pm by Steve Vladeck
., this op-ed by Ben Wittes and Jack Goldsmith), Judge Brown seems to think that there is little for courts to do in the interim--that "common law habeas" is not the appropriate forum within which to have these rules articulated by courts. [read post]
24 Dec 2009, 4:26 pm by Orin Kerr
(UPDATE: This op-ed by Jack Goldsmith, former OLC head, gives you some idea of how the policy choice looks from the government's perspective.) [read post]
23 Dec 2009, 9:30 pm by Ilya Somin
For example, even many conservative legal scholars such as Jack Goldsmith and my frequent coauthor John McGinnis, rejected the Bush Administration's claims to virtually unlimited wartime executive power, as did nearly all liberal and libertarian ones. [read post]