A follower of Charles Manson who stabbed pregnant actress Sharon Tate to death nearly 40 years ago but is dying of brain cancer in a California prison was denied compassionate release Tuesday.
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Let’s say I received a subpoena from the Justice Department today telling me I had to testify about matters it considered vital to national security. Let’s say I told them, "I could give a rat’s ass about your subpoena, blow me." What do you think would happen?
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The Supreme Court’s decision Thursday in Boumediene v. Bush and Al Odah v. United States is-as all the big enemy-combatant cases have been-both enormously important and relatively insignificant.
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In the old days, whoever had the biggest stick won. We ve evolved to the point that, now, whoever has the highest paid lawyer wins, with the advantage that no matter how much you use a lawyer, it won t snap into pieces. As long as the legal system has been around, people have been trying to find ways to **** with it. From plaintiffs to lawyers to judges, it looks like we ve perfected the art.
Sphere: Related Contenthe California Supreme Court narrowly ruled that homosexual couples have a constitutional right to marry, striking down laws barring same-sex nuptials and making the most populous state in the union the second after Massachusetts to legalize gay weddings.
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