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A reporter's take on a Reconstruction legal tale

By Mark Obbie

The book that Chuck Lane took leave to work on -- ushering in the Robert Barnes era for Washington Post SCOTUS coverage -- is out, and he's blogging about it at the Volokh Conspiracy (here, here, and here). I can't top Ed Whelan's succinct summary at Bench Memos, which first tipped me off that The Day Freedom Died was published. But I will note as a point of regional pride that Lane's story of U.S. Attorney James Beckwith's role as prosecutor after the Colfax Massacre starts with Beckwith's upbringing in abolitionist Central New York, near LawBeat's home base. After briefly returning to the Court beat after his book leave to help Barnes close out coverage of last year's term, Lane moved over to the Post's editorial page.

Full post as published by Lawbeat on April 08, 2008 (boomark / email).