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Two members of Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg's staff will provide free legal aid to undocumented immigrant children from Central America who have found themselves in Southern California with no parents or family members. Steinberg announced Wednesday that his policy director, Anthony Williams, and senior policy consultant, Margie Estrada, will participate in the Los Angeles County Bar Association's Legal Assistant Project as a part of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, Southern California Chapter "These children face a daunting immigration process in a foreign legal system without any legal representation. A kid is a kid, and should be shown compassion...

House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa is probing what he sees as signs of an unseemly overlap between President Barack Obama’s official and political activities. In what could be considered the committee’s sharpest probe to date of the White House, Issa sent a letter to Obama’s top lawyer Monday evening asking for a slew of documents relating to what the California Republican termed as “an array of potentially illegal fundraising behavior.”

"You don't need to know. You can't know." That's what Kathy Norris, a 60-year-old grandmother of eight, was told when she tried to ask court officials why, the day before, federal agents had subjected her home to a furious search. No, this didn't happen in a Kafkaesque novel like The Trial. No it didn't happen in the old USSR or in any of its satellite countries, or even in a fascist police state. No, gentle reader, it happened right here on our very own shores!

In The Great State of North Carolina, the voters have recently reelected a District Attorney who has colluded with a forensic lab technician to exclude exculpatory evidence from a rape case. According to the Durham-In-Wonderland Blog, this violates two major points of law. These are North Carolina’s Open Discovery Law and The US Supreme Court precedent established in The Brady Case. While tampering with the DNA evidence, Nifong also tampered as heavily as possible with the media coverage concerning the incident as well. Even the Ultra-Left Wing 60 Minutes published a damning critique of his methods of handling the press....

Four new explorations of aspects of the phenomenon that was President Clinton have been published. They are: "The Natural: The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton," by Joe Klein, the artist formerly known as Anonymous; "Starr: A Reassessment," by Washington Post editorialist Benjamin Wittes; "Final Report of the Independent Counsel in Re: Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan Association," by Robert W. Ray; and "Justice Undone: Clemency Decisions in the Clinton White House," by the House Committee on Government Reform, chaired by Dan Burton. These reviews are, as they say, mixed. Klein seeks to offer a limited revisionist defense of Clinton as...