01/18/07: Silence, Activist Lawyers!

Published: Jan. 21, 2007, 7:16 a.m.

Lawyers are not free from the scorn of Neo-Cons. US Attorneys are being unceremoniously, and questionably, removed by AG Gonzales in favor of GOP familiars with little experience. Sound familiar? At the same time, Charles Stimson, deputy assistant secretary for detainee affairs at the Pentagon, calls for corporations to boycott firms whose lawyers do pro bono work in defense of Guantanamo detainees... then tries to backtrack. Jared and Ralph hold them all to account.