Law

Many a US President Pays the Pardon Piper Many a US President Pays the Pardon Piper

The media coverage of the Clinton pardons has been so biased, overblown and vituperative as to call into question the very purpose of what currently passes as journalism. It is d...

Mar 6, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer

The Court Did What Helms Couldn’t: Trashed the ADA The Court Did What Helms Couldn’t: Trashed the ADA

The rogues in robes are on the move. US Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, the leader of the pack, and the rest of the Court's right-wing majority have launched a ...

Feb 27, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer

A Moderate Wouldn’t Make Appointments Like These A Moderate Wouldn’t Make Appointments Like These

It may be legal, but it's still a coup d'état. The nomination of Theodore B. Olson to be solicitor general, a position of such influence that it is often referred to as "t...

Feb 20, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer

Bush’s Sop to the Right Hits Women Worldwide Bush’s Sop to the Right Hits Women Worldwide

George W. Bush has a sweet appealing face until he reveals his dark side, as when he, in one of his first official acts, cut off funds to international population control groups....

Jan 30, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer

Crazed Cops, ‘Fallen Heroes’ Crazed Cops, ‘Fallen Heroes’

Those endless wars on crime and drugs--a staple of 90 percent of America's politicians these last thirty years--have engendered not merely our 2 million prisoners but a vindictiv...

Jan 27, 2000 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

The Last Job Ashcroft Should Be Given Is AG The Last Job Ashcroft Should Be Given Is AG

That John Ashcroft is a right-wing, pro-gun religious fanatic who laments the civil rights gains of the past decades and believes that leaders of the pro-slavery Southern Confede...

Jan 16, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer

You Can’t Be a Moderate and Pick Ashcroft for Justice You Can’t Be a Moderate and Pick Ashcroft for Justice

Senate Democrats must save George W. Bush from his scarier self. They must reject the appointment of John Ashcroft as attorney general, an appointment that gives the extreme ri...

Jan 9, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer

A Far-Right Nominee Who’s All Wrong A Far-Right Nominee Who’s All Wrong

How ironic that Ashcroft's supporters now ask that he be treated with kid gloves during his own nomination hearings.

Jan 2, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer

California’s Gulag on Trial California’s Gulag on Trial

Welcome to Corcoran State Prison, 170 miles northwest of Los Angeles in the San Joaquin Valley; built at a cost of $271.9 million on what was once Tulare Lake, home of the Tachi ...

Nov 4, 1999 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

The Life of a Black Man The Life of a Black Man

A stay of execution was issued October 26.

Oct 28, 1999 / Angela Y. Davis, June Jordan, and Alice Walker

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