Adam Serwer

Andrew Breitbart has offered a hundred grand for the entire Journolist archives, the now-defunct off-the-record e-mail list of center-left-leaning policy wonks and journalists that led to Dave Weigel leaving The Washington Post. The only person who could likely fulfill that request is Ezra Klein — since the archive has been deleted, all that’s left is […]

A few months ago, trying to calm liberal anxieties about the Supreme Court nomination of Elena Kagan, Vice President Joe Biden‘s Chief of Staff Ron Klain said that “Elena is clearly a legal progressive.” Adopting the Glenn Beck definition of “progressive” as “crypto-fascist,” Sen. Jeff Sessions grillled Kagan on whether she identified that way. She […]

A brief followup to my earlier post. The Tory-Lib Dem coalition in Britain isn’t as interested in “looking forward” on torture as the Obama administration: A judge-led inquiry is to be held into claims British security services were complicit in the torture of terror suspects, the BBC understands. […] The inquiry will offer compensation to […]

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U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald on the conviction of Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge, who tortured criminal suspects in his custody and covered it up for decades: At long last, a measure of justice was delivered today when a jury returned a verdict of guilty against Jon Burge on obstruction of justice and perjury. The verdict […]

Yesterday I wrote a guide to the GOP lines of attack on Solicitor General Elena Kagan. So which ones made an appearance? Kagan hates the military. This one made an appearance, but it wasn’t harped on as much as I would have thought. The harshest words for Kagan on this subject came from Sen. Jeff […]

The Ink Spots, I Don’t Want To Set The World On Fire Jill Scott is a better singer than Erykah Badu, no matter what G.D. says. More on this tomorrow. You work with the moderate Muslims you have, not the liberal ones you wish you had. Osama Bin Laden hunter Gary Faulkner wants to go […]

I told myself I wasn’t going to write anything else about the Dave Weigel matter today, but Greg Sargent‘s rebuke to his anonymous colleagues whining to Jeffrey Goldberg about those awful new bloggers is worth noting. Here are some of the statements given to Goldberg: “This is really about the serial stupidity of allowing these […]

Julianne Hing‘s dispatches from the trial of Johannes Mehserle, the BART police officer who was caught on video shooting an unarmed Oscar Grant in San Francisco last year, are really quite striking: The night he shot Grant, [Mehserle] didn’t really want to come into work. Not just because New Year’s Eve was an all hands […]

After the Supreme Court ruled that there is an individual right to bear arms in the Heller case overturning the ban on handguns in Washington, D.C., it was just a matter of time before a legal challenge to gun restrictions would offer the opportunity for the court to expand gun rights to the states. The […]