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I like my novels to resemble the life I lead: conflict-driven, filled with complex and often insoluble problems, and striving, against all expectations, for something like grace. Hence, I love Scott Turow's fiction. For my money, he is the best lawyer-writer alive. His latest, Innocent, is a...

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We have begun the slide down the slippery slope. Where this ride ends is anyone's guess. But we may soon be asking of the Fourth Amendment what libertarians often ask of the Ninth Amendment: Where did it go?
The Fourth Amendment is fragile of necessity. It draws no bright line against the...

There is no joy in Mudville in the wee hours of this day of mourning. It's now all but official. The die is cast. Hours from now President Barack Obama, the most improbable of presidents, will announce, once and for all, that in the dark night of the soul, politics simply is what it is, a...

The Senate Judiciary Committee today announced that it would only consider the nomination of Gerry Darrow for a seat on the United States Supreme Court if the president also submitted the name of a more conventional candidate to be considered at the same time.
In a terse, one-line announcement,...

The Senate Judiciary Committee today announced that it would only consider the nomination of Gerry Darrow for a seat on the United States Supreme Court if the president also submitted the name of a more conventional candidate to be considered at the same time.
In a terse, one-line announcement,...

Ho, hum. A Fred Flinstone look-alike with a platinum resume. So much for the promise of change. Here. But isn't three generations of institutional competence enough?

The attorney-client privilege prevents lawyers from telling the most interesting stories they know. Those, we take to the grave. But from time to time, enough truth is evident to permit a tale to be told. Today, for Mother's Day, I relay one that still haunts me, many years after the...

Thank you for calling. I know you are worried about your son. So am I.
There's really nothing more I can tell you that I have not told you already. The charges are serious, and the state is serious about pursuing them. No, the state is not going to drop the charges. As I have explained to you...