'Robert Blecker Wants Me Dead' documentary: An article, by Hank Stuever of the Washington Post, reports that "Blecker, a New York Law School professor, supports the death penalty on such a contrary and nuanced level-he calls himself an 'emotional retributivist'--that has set him apart from both sides of the debate and a large swath of the legal realm." The short film documents Blecker and his interaction with Daryl Holton, a death row inmate convicted of killing his four children in 1997 (Holton was executed September 2007). The film "is not rated. It contains graphic descriptions of murder and capital punishment."
Biil Ayers & Bernardine Dohrn Accused of SF Bombing: A story by Demian Bulwa, of the Associated Press, says "leaders of San Francisco's police officers union have accused Weather Underground co-founder Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, of taking part in the 1970 bombing of a city police station that killed a sergeant." The union is lobbying for arrests in the case and are citing Larry Grathwohl as their main source of information. Grathwohl "asserts that he infiltrated the Weather Underground as an FBI informant and heard Ayers confess to a role in the bombing." So far, "Ayers, an education professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, did not return a call Wednesday. Dohrn, a law professor at Northwestern University, was out of the country."
New justices for the U.S. Supreme Court?: "Justice Ruth Ginsburg told law students Friday there could be an opening on the Supreme Court soon but didn't hint at who might be leaving," writes Melissa Trujillo, of the Associated Press. "Court watchers suggest Ginsburg, 88-year old John Paul Stevens and 69-year-old David Souter are the most likely to retire."
The ease of obtaining passports: Eileen Sullivan, of the Associated Press, writes that "using phony documents and the identities of a dead man and a 5-year old boy, a government investigator obtained U.S. passports in a test of post-9/11 security." Terrorists, criminals, and illegal aliens depend on fake documents and pay large sums to acquire them, so why the ease? According to Janice Kephart, an expert on travel document security who worked on the 9/11 Commission Report said, "[the State Department], which processes and issues passports-does not have the ability to ensure that supporting documents are legitimate." So far, no comments have been made by the department.
Biil Ayers & Bernardine Dohrn Accused of SF Bombing: A story by Demian Bulwa, of the Associated Press, says "leaders of San Francisco's police officers union have accused Weather Underground co-founder Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, of taking part in the 1970 bombing of a city police station that killed a sergeant." The union is lobbying for arrests in the case and are citing Larry Grathwohl as their main source of information. Grathwohl "asserts that he infiltrated the Weather Underground as an FBI informant and heard Ayers confess to a role in the bombing." So far, "Ayers, an education professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, did not return a call Wednesday. Dohrn, a law professor at Northwestern University, was out of the country."
New justices for the U.S. Supreme Court?: "Justice Ruth Ginsburg told law students Friday there could be an opening on the Supreme Court soon but didn't hint at who might be leaving," writes Melissa Trujillo, of the Associated Press. "Court watchers suggest Ginsburg, 88-year old John Paul Stevens and 69-year-old David Souter are the most likely to retire."
The ease of obtaining passports: Eileen Sullivan, of the Associated Press, writes that "using phony documents and the identities of a dead man and a 5-year old boy, a government investigator obtained U.S. passports in a test of post-9/11 security." Terrorists, criminals, and illegal aliens depend on fake documents and pay large sums to acquire them, so why the ease? According to Janice Kephart, an expert on travel document security who worked on the 9/11 Commission Report said, "[the State Department], which processes and issues passports-does not have the ability to ensure that supporting documents are legitimate." So far, no comments have been made by the department.
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