Oral arguments show a lawyer’s conundrum

Sunday, November 21st, 2010

On September 8, 2010, during oral argument in Chicago in the case, Sabri Samirah v. Eric Holder, No. 08-1889, about which I recently wrote,  Judge Richard Posner, discussing the fact that the alien about whom the case dealt had no access to judicial review because he was outside the United States but would if he returned to the United States illegally, had the following interchange with the Department of Justice’s attorney, Paul F. Stone.On November 1, 2010, during oral argument…