Legal Schnauzer

A top legal ethicist says an affidavit from Missouri attorney Paul Benton Weeks adds to a growing body of evidence that suggests that U.S. D...

Saturday probably is the slowest blog-reading day of the week, so many readers might have missed a major story that broke yesterday. The sto...

The New Republic, has joined the chorus of media outlets reporting on issues connected to the Don Siegelman case. TNR reporter Bradford Plu...

Some fascinating, and disturbing, stuff is coming out in the Montgomery Advertiser today. Leave it to Scott Horton, of Harper's , to pu...

Let's revisit our comparison of the coverage accorded the problems of Hoover High School football coach Rush Propst vs. that of alleged ...

Do Americans hold higher standards for their football coaches than they do for their judges? It looks that way from here. Consider the case ...

Just when you think Republican hypocrisy can't get any worse, they go and top themselves. The latest example comes in a story today abou...

Richard Thornburgh, a former attorney general under President George H.W. Bush, evidently is prepared to testify that the Justice Department...

The New York Times reports today on a disturbing trend that might be at the heart of the Paul Minor prosecution, a Mississippi case we have...

In the previous post in our "Mississippi Churning" series, we noted U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate's baffling determination...