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GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney has appointed a team of 63 practicing attorneys, judges and law professors to serve on a justice advisory committee for his campaign, staff announced in a release Tuesday. The committee is expected to “draw on their experience in all three branches of government, private practice, industry, and academia to advise Governor Romney in his campaign for the presidency,” the campaign release said, adding the 63-person board will specifically “advise on the Constitution, judicial matters, law enforcement, homeland security, and regulatory issues” and provide legal counsel for Romney’s campaign when needed.

The goings-on of red state Republican officials aren’t usually national news, but this story from Boise is a fitting postscript to a week that started with

Except for the few times she raised her hands to applaud, Sheila Reiland of Iowa City sat quietly — hands at her sides, feet flat on the floor, her back against a school lunch table. For more than an hour and a half she watched and listened as four men, all hoping to be president, and a handful of eastern Iowa Republican Party leaders took their turn at the microphone

How’s this for a stimulus plan? A trio of senators introduced legislation today allowing owners of gas-guzzlers to trade their vehicles in for thousands of

The Supreme Court rules suspects must explicitly say they want to remain silent in order to invoke Miranda protections. Alabama Democrats could nominate

Two new programs are designed to help people with no jobs at risk of losing their homes. But for Sandra Monroe-Olcott and others, the damage may already be done.

Rep. John McHugh (R-N.Y.) is before the Senate Armed Services Committee this morning for his confirmation hearing to become secretary of the Army. He began by

David Luban, a law professor and expert on legal ethics at Georgetown University, just called the torture memos written by the Bush administration’s Office of

Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone spoke at the National Press Club today, discussing his new film, South of the Border, and politics in Latin America. After

While the Four Corners area is one of the most remote regions of the lower 48 states, it’s also home to some of the dirtiest coal-fired power plants in the nation. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) earlier this month set out to remedy that situation

Roger Stockham, the California man arrested in Dearborn this weekend for an alleged plot to blow up the Islamic Center of America mosque, has a long history of extremism, violence and mental problems.

President Obama was pretty subdued when talking about Iraq last night at his press conference last night. We just saw an election in Iraq that went relatively

Bay Buchanan, whom I interviewed this week about troubled anti-immigration activist Marcus Epstein, has published a fuller account of his problems and a

A brainstorming session between two conservative activists spurred the strategy to convince voters not to trust their legislators on health care.

Special-needs students are more likely than other students to be bullied in school, according to a recent report published by AbilityPath.org, an online

In Florida politics, self-funded candidates are faring well in the polls, with the multi-millionaire political neophytes Jeff Greene, running as a Democrat for

Back in April, Brian Beutler reported that Top Conservatives on Twitter—the grassroots group consisting of anyone who used the Twitter hashtag #tcot — was

The Iranian opposition movement has been brutally suppressed by a regime that has traded legitimacy for control. Facing dire straits, what’s left for it to do?