Follow-up: Food for Thought

On Tuesday I wrote about the announced terrorist trial to be held in New York. Today I read this piece at Slate.com. To summarize the author's point: bad trials make for bad precedents.

This post is mostly for Curmudgeon and Michael. For the non-lawyers, unless you have a thing for turgid (especially for Slate) argument that you have to struggle to parse, I don't know that I would bother clicking the link.