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March 20, 2010
Sometimes losing a home is just the beginning of the pain
March 20, 2010As if losing one's home in a foreclosure or short sale were not already sufficiently traumatic, many former homeowners are learning that the day they turn in their keys may be only the start of an even more prolonged housing-induced misery.
Dueling Post columns on Rahm Emanuel
March 20, 2010Pow!
A shameful attack on the U.S. legal system
March 20, 2010 It never occurred to me on the day that Defense Department lawyer Rebecca Snyder and Lt. Cmdr. William Kuebler of the Navy appeared in my law firm's offices to ask for our assistance in carrying out their duties as military defense lawyers that the young lawyer who worked with me on that matter would be publicly attacked for having done so. And yet this week that lawyer and eight other Justice Department attorneys have been attacked in a video released by a group called Keep America Safe (whose board members include William Kristol and Elizabeth Cheney) for having provided legal assistance to detainees before joining the department. The video questions their loyalty to the United States, asking: "DOJ: Department of Jihad?" and "Who are these government officials? . . . Whose values do they share?"
Local Digest
March 20, 2010
Somali official's immunity case raises legal, policy issues
March 20, 2010The federal government argues that it is up to the executive branch, not the judicial, to decide when foreign officials deserve immunity from charges of human rights abuses filed in U.S. courts.
Md. and Va. defense attorneys differ on Supreme Court ruling on Miranda rights
March 20, 2010Defense attorneys in Maryland and Virginia differ on the potential impact of a recent Supreme Court decision that says police can seek to interview a suspect who has invoked his Miranda rights, provided that law enforcement officers release the suspect from custody and wait 14 days.
Gay couples find one marriage barrier gone, others still rigid
March 20, 2010Dominic Russoli retired in 2001 from an Air Force squadron that flies national leaders, and he is now a paralegal at the Justice Department. He had been in the military for 22 years, almost as long as he has been with his partner, Rolf Preisendorfer.
Kansas City wants to close half its public schools
March 20, 2010 KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Kansas City was held up as a national example of bold thinking when it tried to integrate its schools by making them better than the suburban districts where many kids were moving. The result was one school with an Olympic-sized swimming pool and another with recording studios.
How the Constitution, filtered by the high court, affects guns
March 20, 2010It is said, more frequently than precisely, that the reasons the Supreme Court gives for doing whatever it does are as important as what it does. Actually, the court's reasons are what it does. Hence, the interest in the case the Supreme Court considered last week.
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