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Many Federal Judgeship Openings Await Obama

By MARK SHERMAN | Associated Press WASHINGTON — - President-elect Barack Obama will enter office with an immediate opportunity to begin shaping the federal courts by filling four dozen openings on trial and appeals courts....

Federal judgeship openings await Obama

President-elect Obama will enter office with an immediate opportunity to begin shaping the federal courts by filling four dozen openings on trial and appeals courts. President Bush receives uniformly high marks from...

An advance look at the Republican opposition

AN ADVANCE LOOK AT THE REPUBLICAN OPPOSITION.... It's only been a couple of days since Barack Obama was declared the president-elect, but it's hard not to notice that congressional Republicans are already striking a...

Can Barack Obama undo Bush's tangled legal legacy?

By Marisa Taylor and Michael Doyle | McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON — When Barack Obama becomes president in January, he'll confront the controversial legal legacy of the Bush administration. On one hand, civil libertarians...

Good News on the Law: Can President Obama Change the Supreme Court?

Good News on the Law: Can President Obama Change the Supreme Court?Date 11/07/08 | Topic: Life Today By Stephen L. Bloom Esq.Good News Daily It’s no exaggeration to say that the lives, liberty, and property of Americans...

Justices weigh asylum for Eritrean prison guard

In an argument that touched on Aristotle and the Holocaust, the Supreme Court on Wednesday considered the fate of a former guard in an Eritrean prison where inmates were tortured and killed. An applicant for asylum, he has said...

Supreme Court, PhRMA Present Arguments on Preemption

Arguments in the Supreme Court case Wyeth v. Levine have concluded, leaving both sides to wait possibly until early 2009 for a decision in a preemption case involving the misadministration of Wyeth's "Phenergan."

Supremes seem divided on Wyeth v. Levine

The Supreme Court appeared headed for another close decision in today's hearing of Wyeth vs. Levine, a case seen as a key test of whether FDA labeling pre-empts “failure to warn” lawsuits against drug companies in state courts....

Obama, The Supreme Court And DOJ

Legal Analyst Cohen On Obama Impact On Courts And Dept. Of Justice (CBS) Attorney Andrew Cohen analyzes legal issues for CBS News and CBSNews.com. When he looks to select the next Attorney General of the United States, or the...

Gollywaddles! Supreme Court reviews decency rules

If the Supreme Court does not act, the solicitor general of the United States somberly told its justices, the children of America may be in for some rude surprises. In a lively argument heavy on euphemism and concern for the...