Anthony Clark Arend

The White House
Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate Release
May 10, 2010

Remarks by the President and Solicitor General Elena Kagan at the Nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court
East Room
10:02 A.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT:  Hello, hello, hello!  Thank you.  (Applause.)  Thank you very much.  Everybody, please have a seat.
Good morning, everybody.  Of the many responsibilities accorded to a President …

The Washington Post is reporting tonight:
President Obama plans to nominate Solicitor General Elena Kagan to be the 112th justice of the Supreme Court, a source said late Sunday night.
Kagan, 50, the former dean of Harvard Law School, would become the fourth woman to serve on the high court; if confirmed, it would mean that three women would serve on the …

It has been a sad academic year at Georgetown, with the passing of many of our colleagues. Most recently Professor Dorothy M. Betz of the French Department passed away quite suddenly. My friend and colleague, Howard Spendelow, brought this obituary from today’s Washington Post to my attention. As the article notes, Dorothy was a mainstay of the University Faculty Senate. …

Good interview. Most troubling is his conclusion that the U.S. government is not taking adequate steps to address the challenges posed by this “new form” of terrorism.

State Department Foreign Affairs Day Celebration

Hillary Rodham Clinton
Secretary of State

Washington, DC

May 7, 2010

SECRETARY CLINTON: Oh, thank you. Thank you. (Applause.) Thank you. Thank you very much.
Oh, my goodness, well, it is absolutely a privilege for me to join all of you today and I’m delighted to see so many of you here for Foreign Affairs Day. You are among the …

My dear friend (for almost forty-years!), UCLA Law Professor Stephen Bainbridge has recently taken on many the unfortunate claims that the so-called Times Square Bomber, Faisal Shahzad, should not be given his Constitutional rights.  Here is his most recent post, which I re-post in its entirety, lest it lose its full effect:

Why not just torture the SOB?
The WSJ editorial board …

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The previous post reported and commented on Ambassador Mike Sheehan’s op-ed on the challenge of terrorism. Here is a recent video of an interview he did yesterday commenting on the Times Square Bomber in the wake of more recent information.

In case you missed it, Michael A. Sheehan had an excellent op-ed in the New York Times earlier this week on the challenge of “home grown” and “lone wolf” terrorism. Ambassador Sheehan served as the US Coordinator for Counterterrorism during the Clinton Administration and was Deputy Commissioner for Counterterrorism with the New York City Police– and, I might add, a …