Hold Fast

The New York Times has an article today on the emergence of a problem area in the Obama administration’s nearly-blanket exclusion of lobbyists from holding positions in the administration. Essentially while President Obama’s campaign promise to shut out lobbyists has largely worked, it has also meant many uniquely talented individuals who have spent their career [...]

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Meteor Blades has a must-read post on the problem with pragmatism as a guiding arrow in the critical questions regarding the rule of law President Obama now faces.

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David Luban of Balkinization discovers that there is an OLC torture memo by Bradbury, Bybee and Yoo that has yet to be released.

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IBEW Local 1597 member Mike Semm has an op-ed in the Grand Island Tribune about the need for the Employee Free Choice Act to be passed during these tough economic times. He begins by framing the economic crisis we’re in: We know the economy has been broken since long before the latest financial tsunami. Just [...]

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Glenn Greenwald, per usual, has been great covering the release of the OLC torture memos and what responses should stem from them. I think he really makes clear the point I was trying to make yesterday about the imperative for citizens to defend the rule of law in America: Either we care about the rule [...]

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Some welcome news for Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd — he’s blowing his competitors out of the water in fundraising. Here’s the breakdown from the Courant: Chris Dodd: Dodd raised about $1.05 million in the first quarter of 2009, leaving him with a cash balance of nearly $1.4 million, according to a fundraising report he filed [...]

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Now that the Obama administration has released what seem to be nearly full records of the OLC memos on torture, the question is what comes next. In his announcement of the release, President Obama said: In releasing these memos, it is our intention to assure those who carried out their duties relying in good faith [...]

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Shorter National Republican Campaign Committee:  Quick! Give us more money now before you have to pay your taxes! (Note: Donations to NRCC are not tax deductible)

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