At long last someone is going to check the legality of the Texas district rigging Tom DeLay pushed through a couple of years back. The story is reported in today’s New York Times: Supreme Court to Review Texas Redistricting Dispute The result of DeLay’s efforts was to create five extra Republican biased seats in Texas, […]

“The principles of the common-law, standing alone, in my opinion compel the exclusion of third-party torture evidence as unreliable, unfair, offensive to ordinary standards of humanity and decency and incompatible with any principles which should animate atribunal seeking to administer justice.” Thus spoke Lord Bingham when he announced the Law Lords decision banning torture from […]