Sunday Spirit of Justice

Image: Justice (Tonnetti/1913) - From the Connecticut State Library website
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Themis, Goddess of Justice (Barbara Swatt/UWLS):
Her ability to foresee the future enabled her to become one of the oracles at Delphi, which in turn led to her establishment as the goddess of divine justice. Classical representations of Themis did not show her blindfolded (because of her talent for prophecy, she had no need to be blinded) nor was she holding a sword (because she represented common consent, not coercion).

Modern statuary presents the goddess as both blind and armed, which more closely fits the administration of "Justice" in our modern, civilized, and forward-looking world.
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Scott Horton: The President-Tyrant (9 Dec '07):
Let [the President] say what the government is, if it be not a tyranny . . . In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution. [Thomas Jefferson- The Kentucky Resolutions, art. 8, Oct., 1798.

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Richard B. Schmitt/LAT: U.S. attorney firings open doors for the 9
A year ago, a Justice Department scandal forced them into new careers. Despite some bitterness, they've landed on their feet.

Pamela Hess/AP: CIA, Justice Review of Destroyed Tapes
[Porter] Goss learned of the tapes' destruction "a couple of days" after it happened, a government official familiar with the events said. The official said Goss did not order an investigation or inform Congress.

James Oliphant/ChicagoTrib: Supreme Court revisits Guantanamo's legal process
. . Yoo said judges should not be allowed to second-guess military decisions made in wartime. "Reading habeas so broadly would invite a level of judicial micromanagement over military operations that could interfere with the most effective prosecution of a war,"
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