Tag: Law

Solicitor General Elena Kagan will be President Obama’s second Supreme Court nominee. The emerging conventional wisdom is that Kagan, a rare nominee for the high court who hasn’t been a judge, is a very smart blank slate. On at least one category of issues that Kagan will face — the intersection of national security and law during a time of war — that conventional wisdom looks correct. But there’s a proxy for that set of issues, however inexact, that offers a few clues in advance of her confirmation hearings: Kagan’s deference to executive power.

As expected, President Barack Obama Tuesday morning signed into law the Senate’s package of health care reforms, a number of which will go into...

Spencer Ackerman at the Colorado Independent's sister site in Washington notes that Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., wrote a diary at Firedoglake on a...

WASHINGTON-- As the Obama administration nears its deadline for deciding where to try the men suspected of masterminding the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorists attacks, there are strong indications that those trials could take place in federal courts in the United States. That’s prompting fervent opposition from Republicans, who say the 9/11 terrorists should never be allowed anywhere on U.S. soil, let alone in a civilian U.S. court.

The general rule of law in employment cases is that you can be fired for any reason, even a stupid one.  The reason does...

Most legal decisions made by state and federal appellate courts in Colorado are unpublished.  Yesterday, the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th...

Colorado Confidential caught up with Democratic gubernatorial candidate, Bill Ritter, when he visited the Rifle/Glenwood Springs area recently. Our subject was immigration and Ritter's...