Lyle Denniston
lylden@aol.com
Lyle Denniston is now in his 59th year as a journalist. This also is his 49th year of covering the Supreme Court. He has covered one of every four Justices ever to sit on the Court. He is currently covering the Court for an Internet-based clearing house of information about the Supreme Court’s work – the Web log known as SCOTUSblog. He also reports on the Court for Radio Station WBUR in Boston and for "Justice Talking," an NPR program originating in Philadelphia. He is the author of “The Reporter and The Law: Techniques of Covering the Courts.” He has contributed two chapters to CQ Press’ book on individuals whose cases made history at the Supreme Court, and a chapter to a second CQ Press book, with the chapter covering the controversial New Deal-era decisions of the Court on the NRA and the AAA. He is a member of the Hall of Fame of the Society of Professional Journalists.
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Getting up to speed on detainees
SHOWCASE | May 15, 2007
Longtime Supreme Court reporter Lyle Denniston writes a primer on U.S. detainee policy and the legal challenges expected in the coming months.
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If voters are to go into the midterm elections with any understanding at all, the press needs to get away from he-said, she-said reporting and look into the positions that candidates and the two parties are taking. Martin Lobel offers some vital questions. 
Our correspondent in Australia has ideas on how to improve things a little. But he’s not optimistic that anyone on Capitol Hill will be interested. 
Columnist and author Steven Greenhut looks at the ongoing pension issue, including abuses of it, and deals with some of the key questions. 
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Cleaning up in the wake of the 2010 Iowa State Fair will be daunting this year. In addition to the mess left by nearly 1 million visitors and thousands of farm animals, we have a continuing saga of news coverage that told of possible racial assaults and then, in Saturday Night Live fashion, appears [...] 
(Editor’s note: The incidents described here have become part of a developing story, as this Google link shows.)
The Des Moines Register’s reluctance to identify criminal suspects or victims by race has turned into an outright refusal to do so.
The closing night of the Iowa State Fair was marked by an observance not exactly on the [...] 
I got this note from a friend and colleague a little while after Roger Clemens was indicted by a federal grand jury on Aug. 19th:
“And meanwhile, Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, CIA officials and others who lied to Congress in sworn testimony about Iraq go free. If we can ‘look forward, not backward’ on torture, perjury, [...] 
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