Monday, June 28, 2004

Hiibel Tells Us Why. Brushing aside mouthpieces like me and Timothy Lynch, Larry Dudley Hiibel tells us why he went all the way to the Supreme Court over not wanting to tell a cop who he is, in the pages of the Christian Science Monitor. [Hit & Run] 1:30:30 PM    comment () Over the weekend I tested "Skype"'s new Skypeout service by leaving a message for myself on my office voicemail. It worked fine, although it was difficult to find out how to make the call. It turns out that to call a telephone from Skype, you need to dial "+" (plus sign), the country code, then the number. This wasn't made particularly clear, nor was there any way in the UI to look up a country code. Personally, I had no idea what the country code for the United States was, and I suspect that probably most people won't know the code for their own country. 10:39:44 AM    comment () # Clay S. Conrad at The American Jury Institute - Doing Your Best as a Trial Juror: Surviving Voir Dire - you can't nullify a law if you're not on the jury. How a fully-informed juror can get on a jury without perjuring himself. [clairefiles] [End the War on Freedom] As it happens, I had jury duty last Monday. There were no cases requiring juries that day, though. 10:04:48 AM    comment () Supremes on Detainees. In a ruling today: The Supreme Court ruled narrowly Monday that Congress gave President Bush the power to hold an American citizen without charges or trial, but said the detainee can challenge his treatment in court. The 6-3 ruling sided with the administration on an important legal point raised in the war on terrorism. At the same time, it left unanswered other hard questions raised by the case of Yaser Esam Hamdi, who has been detained more than two years and who was only recently allowed to see a lawyer. The administration had fought any suggestion that Hamdi or another U.S.-born terrorism suspect could go to court, saying that such a legal fight posed a threat to the president's power to wage war as he sees fit. Jacob Sullum looked at the Hamdi case here. [Hit & Run] I'd say that awkward stage has pretty much passed. 9:26:37 AM    comment ()

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