Samuel Alito

Obama’s legacy at Harvard

Obama’s win has made having “brains” sexy again, shares another Harvard graduate. Americans have picked someone who is a clear intellectual, rejecting the perception that politicians who were too intellectual were out of touch...

What You Got Wrong And Right

DesMoinesDem has a great idea - a cleansing confessional of what we got wrong. You first . . . Oh, you want me to go first. Well, can I start on a few things I got right? Ok, I was right about George Bush, Iraq, Alberto...

Obama 'unlikely to reverse US judiciary's drift to the right'

Barack Obama is unlikely to reverse the US judiciary's drift to the right under President Bush until his second term in office, acording to constitutional law experts. By Tom Leonard in New York The President-Elect is well...

Obama likely to push US courts away from right

Saturday, November 15, 2008 WASHINGTON: President-elect Barack Obama will have a chance to appoint dozens of sympathetic judges to U.S. federal courts over the next four years, reversing the judiciary’s shift to the right under...

Retired Justice O'Connor to hear cases in Philly

She will serve as a visiting judge on court of appeals. Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor will return to the bench next week as a visiting judge on the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

It’s Tricky

Thirty-five years ago this month, the edifice began to collapse. “People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook,” said President Richard Nixon at a televised press conference on November 17, 1973. “Well, I'm...

GOP Files Suit to End Ban on Unlimited Campaign Donations

Brody Mullins reports on campaign finance. The Republican Party filed a lawsuit Thursday to overturn the ban on unlimited campaign contributions that is the cornerstone of a 2002 law designed to reduce the influence of big...

GOP challenges 'soft money' laws

WASHINGTON (AP) — The national Republican Party sued the Federal Election Commission Thursday, seeking to overturn prohibitions on unregulated corporate and labor contributions and to make it easier to coordinate spending with...

The Greens Get Harpooned

The Supremes save the Navy from the whales. The Supreme Court opened its fall term auspiciously yesterday by sinking the environmental Pequod known as NRDC v. Nonetheless, the question the Justices were forced to resolve -- do...

Republican Party to challenge campaign money laws in Supreme Court

WASHINGTON - The national Republican Party wants to make it easier to raise and spend political money. Party officials say they plan to sue the Federal Election Commission to alter a six-year-old l...

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