THE QUESTION ISN'T WHETHER LAWYERS ARE ENTITLED TO DEFEND TERRORISTS...:

More Holder briefs acknowledged (KASIE HUNT, 3/12/10, Politico)

Attorney General Eric Holder didn’t tell the Senate Judiciary Committee about seven Supreme Court amicus briefs he prepared or supported, his office acknowledged in a letter Friday, including two urging the court to reject the Bush administration’s attempt to try Jose Padilla as an enemy combatant.

“It has come to our attention that some but not all briefs submitted to the Supreme Court by or on behalf of Attorney General Holder as counselor amicus were supplied to the Committee in the course of his confirmation process last year. We regret the omission,” Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich wrote to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy.

...but whether the American people are entitled to take the fact that they do so into consideration when deciding whether to entrust them with law enforcement duties.

Posted by Orrin Judd at March 12, 2010 7:13 PM