Adam Serwer

Via Elise Foley comes another myth-busting graph from the pro-immigration group America’s Voice Online, which shows that crime has gone up drastically in Maricopa County while dropping in the rest of Arizona despite (because of?) the draconian anti-immigrant policies of its conservative celebrity sheriff, Joe Arpaio: Jack Harris, the police chief in Phoenix, where crime […]

There have been some vague attempts to justify landmarking the building slated for the construction of the Islamic Center near Ground Zero on the grounds that the building itself was hit by debris from 9/11, but an ad Ben Smith reports was rejected by NBC and CBS doesn’t even try to pretend that they aren’t […]

In yet another episode involving Barack Obama‘s (a) deep-seated hatred for white people (b) liberal racism, the president has declared his support for Rep. Steve Cohen, the congressman from Tennessee’s predominantly black 9th Congressional District who trounced former Harold Ford aide Nikki Tinker‘s race-baiting campaign two years ago. The Washington Post doesn’t mention that in […]

Alex Pareene on the conservative hysteria over the proposed Islamic Center near Ground Zero, which has now become a gubernatorial campaign issue: If we don’t give in to the most reactionary anti-Muslim forces in the nation, the terrorists who seek to convince Muslim youths that we’re a reactionary, anti-Muslim nation will have won. Pareene is […]

The Department of Justice charges New Orleans police officers in connection with the Danziger Bridge shooting. The 2010 elections in one graph. Dana Goldstein on the coming birth-control battle. There are no lucrative endorsement deals for slaves. But this post got me kinda wondering what a Frederick Douglass shoe would look like. Obviously, it would […]

Here’s an odd confluence of events: On the same day that a D.C. District Court ruling makes it easier for the government to hold suspected terror detainees indefinitely, the Department of Defense announces the transfer of Mohammed Odaini back to Yemen: On May 26, 2010, a U.S. District Court ordered the release of Mohammed Odaini […]

Radley Balko writes a sober-minded column on the fate of Johannes Mehserle: There’s also the appearance of a double standard. Mehserle’s defense is that he made a mistake. In the heat of the moment, Mehserle inadvertently reached for the wrong weapon. But Mehserle had training. He had other cops there backing him up. If we’re […]

Lyle Denniston reports: The D.C. Circuit Court, in a broad hint to the Justice Department to adopt a new strategy in detainee cases, suggested strongly on Tuesday that federal judges are now demanding too much evidence from the government to justify holding prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, and elsewhere. Although the three-judge panel said it was […]

Last week, Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr, a Canadian national who is being prosecuted by military commission for crimes he is alleged to have committed as a teenager, fired his lawyers. Yesterday, now-unbanned Miami Herald reporter Carol Rosenberg reports that Khadr also rejected a plea deal in which he would serve five more years at Gitmo […]

Andrew Napolitano is one of those genuinely idiosyncratic Fox News personalities. Last year, he wrote an op-ed in the LA Times denouncing the whole “War on Terrorism” framework and calling for terror suspects to be tried in civilian courts. Yesterday, in a conversation with Ralph Nader, he said George W. Bush and Dick Cheney should […]