[Carling]

Justice Alito's reaction departed from the traditional expressionless, stone-like pose the justices take when attending politically tinged events.

President Temper Tantrum's attack on the USSC departed from the traditional poise and intellect the President takes in a SOTU address. Kudos to Alito for not standing for the obvious lie that the Dipstick in Chief uttered against a defenseless Court.

[gigster]

If someone slaps me in the face like that, you’d better believe that I will react strongly.

[kcvl]

Jess Bravin

Jess Bravin '97 has been named the newest John Jacobs Fellow at UC Berkeley's Institute of Governmental Studies (IGS). Bravin will apply the fellowship to work on a book examining the Bush Administration's use of military justice for terrorism suspects.

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In May 2004 Jess Bravin broke the story of a Department of Justice memo (now infamously called the “torture memo”) that defined torture as having to include “excruciating and agonizing pain.” It suggested that the President had authority superseding U.S. anti-torture laws and that U.S. personnel had several legal defenses against criminal liability in torture cases. Jess Bravin now reports in the Wall Street Journal that there’s a new Justice Department torture memo. (The Washington Post and AP also have stories.) This one is authored by the Office of Legal Counsel and claims to clean up some of the language that raised alarm in the earlier memoranda from August 2002 and March 2003