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Words are powerful. In court, they can make or break a case. But just how far should the judicial system go to control them? That's the question central to one case in Lincoln, Nebraska, where a sexual assault trial has morphed into a federal case over the First Amendment...
Scooting Away from Justice In "Easy Commute," Richard Lacayo suggested that President George W. Bush commuted the sentence of I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, a member of the Bush inner circle, because Bush had nothing to lose [July 16]. But there could be a more sinister reason. Events have shown that...
In "Easy Commute," Richard Lacayo suggested that President George W. Bush commuted the sentence of I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, a member of the Bush inner circle, because Bush had nothing to lose [July 16]. But there could be a more sinister reason. With a commuted sentence, Libby can plead the...
"It isn't good enough to say, ?Well, I supported some other amendment that didn't have a timetable, that didn't bring the troops home,'" Senator Dick Durbin, the No. 2 Senate Democrat, told reporters on Capitol Hill Monday, referring to other proposals that have been floated by both...
The court's ruling said that "such frequent use" of vaffanculo and other merely vulgar expressions has created a kind of "inflation" where they have lost their original obscene and/or overtly hostile significance, even while "impoverishing language and manners." The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that "obscene" speech does not...