Word: counsels
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...political discourse. Although such campaigns can be executed with varying degrees of success, she said they are necessary to prevent leaders from becoming “a couple of guys in a back room,” deciding everything for the country. Fellow Benjamin Ginsberg, who was a counsel for both Bush-Cheney campaigns, said he found it “troubling” that politicians are forced to resort to campaign tactics to draw the public’s attention away from murder trials and other sensational news. Fellow Martin Frost, a former U.S. Representative, D-Texas, noted...
...enough to investigate the crimes and has ordered the Saddam defense team to cut off contact with the court until the killers of the lawyers are found, a decision that could further delay the tribunal when it reconvenes on Nov. 28. Procedures would require the court to appoint new counsel, causing another 40-day stay for the difficult discovery process (see following story...
...problem, according to former staff members, is the tightness of the Veep's circle. He relies heavily on his wife Lynne and two daughters, Elizabeth and Mary, for advice on media and internal politics. Insiders took his decision to replace Libby with counsel David S. Addington as a sign that Cheney was circling the wagons rather than making peace with his detractors inside the government. They reason that Addington is a hard-liner who has made enemies around the West Wing with his unwillingness to cooperate or yield on troublesome issues like a court fight for access to records...
...which few other campus police offficers enjoy—it is only fair that they accept the reporting responsibilities when they swear allegiance to uphold the Constitution of the Commonwealth and not simply the policies of the University. HUPD and the University’s Office of General Counsel have tried to resolve this issue by releasing daily crime logs and aggregate crime statistics—which, in any case, the law compels them to do—but they have refused to make public incident reports which, if filed by a municipal police department or county sheriff, would...
...Forum series at the Harvard Law School (HLS) moderated by HLS Dean Elena Kagan. During the discussion, entitled “Executive Power in an Age of Terrorism,” HLS alum Bradford A. Berenson argued in favor of controversial methods of combating terrorism. The former associate counsel to President George W. Bush said that measures such as indefinite detainment of suspected terrorists, military commissions, and even the use of torture were appropriate in extreme cases. “[September 11] was merely a foretaste of what our current adversaries would do to us if they could...