8.26.2003

Here's one for all you lawyers out there -- Judge Richard Posner, founder of the Law and Economics movement and all-around curmudgeon of the appellate circuit, wrote a book review for the NYTimes on Sunday. Lincoln's Constitution, the book, is a mind-bogglingly arcane, yet intriguing, investigation of whether President Lincoln had Constitutional authority to prosecute the Civil War in the ways he did, which included suspending habeas corpus (the determination of whether one has been lawfully imprisoned by the state) -- something more than a little relevant these days.

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