Bush's Top 10 Dumbest Legal Arguments

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Here's another year-end "Top 10" list. And what fertile ground they have to work with! I mean, how could you possibly whittle it down to just ten?

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Legal Fictions

The Bush administration's dumbest legal arguments of the year.

This time last year, I offered up a top 10 list of the most appalling civil-liberties violations by the Bush administration in 2006. The grim truth is, not much has changed. The Bush administration continues to limit our basic freedoms, conceal its own worst behavior, and insist that it does all this in order to make us more free. In that spirit, it seemed an opportune moment to commemorate the administration's worst legal justifications and arguments of the year. And so I humbly offer this new year's roundup: The Bush Administration's Top 10 Stupidest Legal Arguments of 2007. . .

Read the list at: Slate