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• Forgiving and Forgetting Eric Holder will have his hands full at the Justice Department.
  Dahlia Lithwick Nov. 21, 2008
  
• I Beg Your Pardon The top prospects for a last act of Bush clemency.
  Dafna Linzer Nov. 20, 2008
  
• Analogy Lesson Racism is the wrong frame for understanding the passage of California's same-sex marriage ban.
  Richard Thompson Ford Nov. 14, 2008
  
• What's the Best Way To Pack a Court? The attack on merit selection for judges.
  Bert Brandenburg Nov. 14, 2008
  
• Dismantling Guantanamo Closing down the prison camp may be easier said than done.
  Jonathan Mahler Nov. 12, 2008
  
• Left at the Altar What happens now to gay marriage, in California and elsewhere?
  Kenji Yoshino Nov. 6, 2008
  
• He's Not Robin Hood What Obama really meant by "redistributive change."
  Emily Bazelon Oct. 28, 2008
  
• Wingtip Warriors Why those "armies" of lawyers are our last, best hope for an honest Election Day.
  Dahlia Lithwick Oct. 25, 2008
  
• Required Viewing Oklahoma's gallingly paternalistic ultrasound law.
  Emily Bazelon Oct. 22, 2008
  
• Bush's Final Illusion The president's agreement with Iraq bypasses Congress. Again.
  Oona A. Hathaway Oct. 21, 2008
  
• Nuts About ACORN Believing in vote fraud may be dangerous to a democracy's health.
  Dahlia Lithwick Oct. 16, 2008
  
• Skategate Sarah Palin could teach Alberto Gonzales a thing or two about avoiding political scandal.
  Dahlia Lithwick Oct. 11, 2008
  
• Bringing Guantanamo Home The lawlessness abroad was never very far from home.
  Dahlia Lithwick Oct. 11, 2008
  
• "One Dollar for Every West Virginian" The crazy judicial corruption case that the Supreme Court should hear.
  Amanda Frost Oct. 10, 2008
  
• Bad Cop Why Obama is getting criminal justice policy wrong.
  Radley Balko Oct. 6, 2008
  
• Where the Trail Leads Next What does the inspector general's report on U.S. attorney firings really mean for the Justice Department?
  Dahlia Lithwick Sept. 29, 2008
  
• The Downsides of Diversity What Clarence Thomas might have to say about Sarah Palin.
  Dahlia Lithwick Sept. 27, 2008
  
• All for a Brookstone Massage Chair? Ted Stevens on trial.
  Charles Homans Sept. 26, 2008
  
• Wall Street Strip Is Paulson's bailout bill unconstitutional?
  Rod Smolla Sept. 24, 2008
  
• Ten To Toss Readers nominate the 10th Bush order that the next president should scrap.
  Emily Bazelon Sept. 24, 2008
  
• The Modesty Contest Where Obama and McCain stand on executive power.
  Emily Bazelon Sept. 19, 2008
  
• Mistaken Authority Congress should say no to Bush's last-gasp bid for more executive power.
  Neal Katyal Sept. 17, 2008
  
• Justice Barracuda? Why John McCain should put Sarah Palin on the Supreme Court.
  Dahlia Lithwick Sept. 13, 2008
  
• On the Media Obama vs. McCain on media policy 2008.
  Tim Wu Sept. 9, 2008
  
• Bristol's Choice Republicans and the illusion of reproductive choice.
  Dahlia Lithwick Sept. 5, 2008
  
• How Obama Could Fix Labor Law A Labor Day gift to workers with bipartisan trimmings.
  William B. Gould IV Aug. 29, 2008
  
• It's the Constitution, Stupid You know, that old piece of paper the Bush administration shredded. Why is no one in Denver talking about it?
  Dahlia Lithwick Aug. 28, 2008
  
• Abortion Contortion John McCain bets the farm that women aren't listening.
  Dahlia Lithwick Aug. 21, 2008
  
• Script Doctors The dilemma facing South Dakota's abortion providers: Mislead your patients or break the law.
  Emily Bazelon Aug. 19, 2008
  
• C.S.Oy Forensic science is badly in need of reform. Here are some suggestions.
  Radley Balko Aug. 12, 2008
  
• It Takes a Hothead? Why does it take a cliché to draw attention to the problem of fathers' rights?
  Dahlia Lithwick Aug. 9, 2008
  
• Blank Checks and Imbalances It was always all about the judges.
  Dahlia Lithwick Aug. 1, 2008
  
• Obama Takes His Own Law Exams How did he do?
  Emily Bazelon July 30, 2008
  
• Talula Does the Hula From Hawaii And other names so weird that judges forbade them.
  Eugene Volokh July 30, 2008
  
• Let Them Be Lawyers The Supreme Court on the dignity of the mentally ill.
  Cullen Seltzer July 29, 2008
  
• The Bauer of Suggestion Our torture policy has deeper roots in Fox television than the Constitution.
  Dahlia Lithwick July 26, 2008
  
• Investigate Now, Pardon Later It's not quite time to let bygones be bygones.
  Dahlia Lithwick July 24, 2008
  
• Crimes and Misdemeanors Slate's interactive guide: Who in the Bush administration broke the law, and who could be prosecuted?
  Dahlia Lithwick July 24, 2008
  
• Crimes and Misdemeanors 
  Dahlia Lithwick July 24, 2008
  
• Take Your Paws off the Presidency! Does the Bush administration have a secret succession order that bypasses Congress?
  Bruce Ackerman July 15, 2008
  
• Chatter in the System The New War Powers Commission suggests bold new "consultation."
  Dahlia Lithwick July 12, 2008
  
• "You Remain an Enigma to Me" And other responses to Michael Mukasey's trip to the Senate.
  Emily Bazelon July 9, 2008
  
• Constitutional Drift Obama veers to the right, but does he need to take the Constitution with him?
  Dahlia Lithwick July 9, 2008
  
• Telling Doctors What To Think South Dakota's unbelievable new abortion law.
  Emily Bazelon July 2, 2008
  
• Le Trainwreck The Christie Brinkley divorce is a lesson in how not to cure a broken heart.
  Dahlia Lithwick July 2, 2008
  
• Five Myths About the New Wiretapping Law Why it's a lot worse than you think.
  Patrick Radden Keefe June 25, 2008
  
• 20 Questions for David Addington A proposed script for the vice president's chief of staff.
  Dan Froomkin June 24, 2008
  
• Taste-Testing Nutraloaf The prison food that just might be unconstitutionally bad.
  Arin Greenwood June 24, 2008
  
• The Supreme Court: A User Guide The Supreme Court matters next election. Seriously.
  Dahlia Lithwick June 21, 2008
  
• Swing Your Partner O'Connor vs. Kennedy as the justice in the middle.
  Emily Bazelon June 20, 2008
  
• Revolution in Waiting Taking the pulse of gay rights in the courts.
  William N. Eskridge Jr. June 20, 2008
  
• Goodwill Hunting Authorizing torture with the very best of intentions.
  Dahlia Lithwick June 19, 2008
  
• It Was Top Down, Stupid The Bush administration's "bad apples" theory goes sour.
  Phillipe Sands June 18, 2008
  
• Out of Bounds The Bush administration's executive-privilege claims almost make Watergate look like a fond memory.
  David Iglesias June 13, 2008
  
• The Enemy Within Who are we more afraid of: enemy combatants or federal courts?
  Dahlia Lithwick June 12, 2008
  
• The Age of Innocence? The fine legal line between teenage angels and monsters.
  Dahlia Lithwick June 7, 2008
  
• Lose That Lawyer Do defendants in Georgia have any right at all to competent representation?
  Alan Berlow June 3, 2008
  
• Operation Return to Sender The government's immigration enforcers run amok.
  Jennifer Bennett May 30, 2008
  
• Disarming Our Demons The self-fulfilling prophecy of election-stealing.
  Dahlia Lithwick May 24, 2008
  
• Yearning for Evidence The sad parallels between the Texas polygamy raid and Guantanamo.
  Dahlia Lithwick May 22, 2008
  
• Reverse Robin Hood Why is John McCain wrong on health care? Think credit cards.
  Robert Gordon May 19, 2008
  
• Magisterial Conviction Why the California Supreme Court did more than legalize gay marriage.
  Kenji Yoshino May 16, 2008
  
• Race to the Altar California's gay couples should marry fast. Voters could overturn the Supreme Court ruling in November.
  Emily Bazelon May 15, 2008
  
• Who You Calling Activist? California's gay-marriage decision reflects the difference between judicial activism and, um, judging.
  Dahlia Lithwick May 15, 2008
  
• A Few Good Soldiers More members of the military turn against the terror trials.
  Dahlia Lithwick May 13, 2008
  
• Persuasion Justice Antonin Scalia is persuadable. Or he finally thinks you are.
  Dahlia Lithwick May 10, 2008
  
• Little Sudan What should Israel do with its thousands of Christian and Muslim African refugees?
  Emily Bazelon May 5, 2008
  
• Hey, What About the 24th? The constitutional amendment about voting rights that the Supreme Court forgot.
  Bruce Ackerman May 2, 2008
  
• Gaming Indiana The quirky state voting law that could affect Tuesday's primary.
  Richard L. Hasen April 29, 2008
  
• Getting Away With Torture The failures of the legal system for both the torturers and the tortured.
  Dahlia Lithwick April 28, 2008
  
• How Dumb Are We? How long will women shoulder the blame for the pay gap?
  Dahlia Lithwick April 25, 2008
  
• Court Orders Slate readers weigh in on how to fix Supreme Court reporting.
  Dahlia Lithwick April 15, 2008
  
• Trend It, Don't End It Tracking the inscrutable social consensus on capital punishment for rapists.
  Dahlia Lithwick April 12, 2008
  
• Courting Change Rethinking the Supreme Court press corps for a new era.
  Dahlia Lithwick April 11, 2008
  
• Prison Trauma The epitome of cruel and unusual punishment.
  Emily Bazelon April 10, 2008
  
• Record Shopping The antiquated Kansas law that abortion opponents are using to pry into women's medical histories.
  Emily Bazelon April 8, 2008
  
• The New Blue Laws They're about giving workers a break, not forcing church attendance.
  Paul L. Edenfield April 4, 2008
  
• King Tort A swan song to the fallen ruler of the plaintiff's bar.
  Chris Thompson April 4, 2008
  
• Yoo Talkin' to Me? Plausible deniability, and other reasons why warfare by midlevel legal memoranda is a really bad idea.
  Dahlia Lithwick April 2, 2008
  
• Shades of Gray Barack Obama has gotten past affirmative action. Have we?
  Dahlia Lithwick March 31, 2008
  
• Clinton-Obama, Obama-Clinton How they could run together and take turns being president.
  Akhil Reed Amar March 21, 2008
  
• Putting the Second Amendment Second Reframing the constitutional debate over gun control.
  Akhil Reed Amar March 17, 2008
  
• Butt Out A big gun case as a natural experiment in judicial restraint.
  Dahlia Lithwick March 17, 2008
  
• Moving Targets The solicitor general is the latest target in the showdown over guns.
  Dahlia Lithwick March 14, 2008
  
• Why Is Prostitution Illegal? The oldest question about the oldest profession.
  Emily Bazelon March 10, 2008
  
• All Roads Lead to Rove A fired U.S. attorney speaks out in a new book.
  Dahlia Lithwick March 8, 2008
  
• Taking the Democratic Party to Court The top three litigation strategies for pissed-off primary voters—and why they're doomed.
  Richard L. Hasen March 7, 2008
  
• Big Business's Big Term Victories for the Chamber of Commerce at the Supreme Court.
  Doug Kendall March 5, 2008
  
• No Bark, No Bite Is the wrong watchdog investigating how the Justice Department came to approve water-boarding?
  Emily Bazelon Feb. 25, 2008
  
• The Harm Initiative How we got hoodwinked into tolerating abusive interrogations.
  Dahlia Lithwick Feb. 21, 2008
  
• The Bite-Marks Men Mississippi's criminal forensics disaster.
  Radley Balko Feb. 20, 2008
  
• The Freedmen's Remedy The big discrimination case before the Supreme Court.
  Emily Bazelon Feb. 18, 2008
  
• Why Now? The timing of the Guantanamo trials is not an accident.
  Charles Swift Feb. 15, 2008
  
• Out of Commission Why the government may lose the Guantanamo trials, even if it wins.
  Jack Goldsmith Feb. 13, 2008
  
• Telecom Amnesty Congress should stop lawbreaking, not reward it—as the Senate's spy bill does.
  Timothy B. Lee Feb. 13, 2008
  
• Anybody's Guess The legality of water-boarding as work in progress.
  Dahlia Lithwick Feb. 8, 2008
  
• Obama the Lawyer President How would he choose judges?
  Emily Bazelon Feb. 7, 2008
  
• Alito Is Neato John McCain gets taken to school on judicial picks.
  Dahlia Lithwick Feb. 7, 2008
  
• Whatever Happened to "One Person, One Vote"? Why the crazy caucus and primary rules are legal.
  Richard L. Hasen Feb. 5, 2008
  
• The Constitution and the Candidates What would the framers say?
  Akhil Reed Amar Feb. 4, 2008
  
• Alarmist Clock Let's do away with the legislative fiction of the terrorist alarm clock.
  Dahlia Lithwick Jan. 29, 2008
  
• Crashing the Subprime Party How the feds stopped the states from averting the lending mess.
  Nicholas Bagley Jan. 25, 2008
  
• Lay Off Linda Why doesn't the New York Times stand up for Linda Greenhouse?
  Dahlia Lithwick Jan. 22, 2008
  
• If the Yoo Fits ... Why shouldn't Jose Padilla sue John Yoo?
  Emily Bazelon Jan. 16, 2008
  
• Has AT&T Lost Its Mind? A baffling proposal to filter the Internet.
  Tim Wu Jan. 16, 2008
  
• Foul Ball How the Justice Department misplayed the steroids investigation.
  Frank Bowman Jan. 14, 2008
  
• J.K. Rowling's Dark Mark Why she should lose her copyright lawsuit against the Harry Potter Lexicon.
  Tim Wu Jan. 10, 2008
  
• Election Burden Indiana's voter-ID law is harmful and worthless.
  Walter Dellinger Jan. 8, 2008
  
• The Inside-Outsider Can the CIA tapes investigation truly be an independent one?
  Dahlia Lithwick Jan. 3, 2008
  
• The Scourge of the Billable Hour Could law-firm clients finally kill it off?
  Lisa Lerer Jan. 2, 2008