Stuart Taylor Jr. Opening Argument Stuart Taylor Jr. is a National Journal senior writer and columnist. "Opening Argument" offers a legal perspective on current events ranging from White House policy matters to Supreme Court rulings and appointments. • Schedule: Mondays (weekly) • Email: staylor@nationaljournal.com

• Coercive Interrogation: Can Anyone Straighten Out This Mess?
  (Dec. 16, 2005)
• Alito: A Sampling of Misleading Media Coverage (Dec. 12, 2005)
• Abortion Battles Without Much Effect On Abortions (Dec. 5, 2005)
• Alito And His Critics: Who Is Outside The Mainstream? (Nov. 21, 2005)
• On This Issue, Bush and Cheney Need Adult Supervision (Nov. 14, 2005)
• Borking Alito: He Is Neither Far-Right Nor Activist (Nov. 7, 2005)
• The Lesson Of Miers: Excellence Should Be Paramount (Oct. 31, 2005)
• The CIA Leak Scandal: A Gallery Of Antiheroes (Oct. 24, 2005)
• Does Miers Have What It Takes To Excel On the Bench? (Oct. 17, 2005)
• Is The President's Crony Good Enough For The Court? (Oct. 7, 2005)
• Problems With 'Privacy,' And What To Do About Roe (Oct. 3, 2005)
• Young John Roberts: Reasonable On Civil Rights (Sept. 26, 2005)
• Why Must We Roll The Dice On A New Chief Justice? (Sept. 19, 2005)
• How John Roberts Might Change The Law (Sept. 2, 2005)
• Why Roberts Shouldn't Tell Us What He Thinks (Aug. 1, 2005)
• Five Reasons Not to Put Gonzales On the Court (July 18, 2005)
• How O'Connor And the Court Have Drifted Leftward (July 1, 2005)
• Life Tenure Is Too Long For Supreme Court Justices (June 27, 2005)
• Liberal Drug Warriors! Conservative Pot-Coddlers! (June 13, 2005)
• The Moderates Take Charge! (May 30, 2005)
• Lloyd Cutler: The Last Superlawyer (May 16, 2005)
• Filibusters: Two Wrongs Won't Make Things Right (May 9, 2005)
• Does the President Agree With This Nominee? (May 2, 2005)
• How the Republicans Lost Their Majority (April 25, 2005)
• PATRIOT Act Hysteria Meets Reality (April 18, 2005)
• What Terri Schiavo's Case Should Teach Us (April 4, 2005)
• Moderate Republicans Should Not Go 'Nuclear' -- Yet
  (March 21, 2005)
• Revisiting Iraq, And Rooting For Bush (March 14, 2005)
• The Court, And Foreign Friends, As Constitutional Convention
  (March 7, 2005)
• Males, Females, And Math: The Evidence (Feb. 28, 2005)
• Genocide In Darfur: Crime Without Punishment? (Feb. 21, 2005)
• Arnold's Amendment: Moderates Strike Back (Feb. 14, 2005)
• Why Feminist Careerists Neutered Larry Summers (Feb. 7, 2005)
• Better Justice: Bush's Missed Opportunity (Jan. 31, 2005)
• How To End Interbranch Warfare On Criminal Sentencing (Jan. 24, 2005)
• Distorting The Law And Facts In The Torture Debate (Jan. 18, 2005)
• Congress Must Stop Ignoring 'Enemy Combatants' (Jan. 10, 2005)

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