Russ McBee

As a consequence of this debacle in our local government, Knox County Commissioners are under a court order not to violate the Sunshine Law again, under penalty of fines and possibly even jail time. Given the events of the last year and a half in this county, one would think they'd have sense enough not to discuss the public's business in private ...

Today in the Jose Padilla ''trial,'' an undercover CIA officer testified while wearing a disguise and using a pseudonym. The defense lawyers weren't allowed to learn his name, and the jury wasn't told he was using a fake name. Here's the essential problem, and it's become sadly typical of the Bush administration's disdain for the ...

The Jose Padilla ''trial'' started today, and it began on a particularly sour note for the First Amendment. Alongside all the other Constitutional abominations comprising this case, there's this unprecedented infringement (via FireDogLake): But court security officers are enforcing an unusual rule for the trial, which is set to get under ...