After letting these families fight for several years to seek justice and after they succeeded in obtaining judgments from the courts, the administration has blocked them at every turn.

The Justice Department's daily threat to revoke Elian's legal permission to remain in this country is an outrageous tactic. It is a scheme to short-circuit a judicial process in which even the most heinous of criminals are given the right to appeal.

This is probably the worst miscarriage of justice I've seen in 34 years of practice.

Several families have brought in their dead.

After all my years, there are two things I've never got used to - haggling with a player over his contract and telling a boy he's got to go back.

Both plans restructure tax benefits ... and make these benefits fairer by ensuring they are available to all taxpayers - not just the 35 percent who itemize.