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onthehillblog.blogspot.com - 12 hours ago
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A federal judge in Kentucky has rejected a
motion by tobacco companies to block key provisions of
the new law giving the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the power to regulate tobacco products.
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slate.com - 37 hours ago
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Next week, the Supreme Court will hear a
case testing whether the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel
and unusual punishment prohibits sentencing a teen to life in prison without parole. Punishment is generally deemed "cruel" if it's more than "graduated ...
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Death is different, but is it all that different from ...
politico.com - 18 hours ago
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Marcia Kramer reports that David Paterson is "bringing
on board campaign powerhouse Harold Ickes, who was former
President Bill Clinton's Deputy Chief of Staff." It's a smart hire: The most obvious way for Andrew Cuomo to push Paterson ...
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Paterson hires
politico.com - 36 hours ago
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Embattled New York Governor David Paterson is poised
to launch a last-ditch effort to revive his popularity
and save his job. Paterson is preparing a major ad campaign aimed at improving his low poll numbers and signaling his determination to seek ...
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Exclusive: Paterson readies ad campaign
bench.nationalreview.com - 43 hours ago
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At her confirmation hearing this past July, now-Justice
Sonia Sotomayor exasperated and disgusted many of her supporters
on the Left by attempting to disguise herself as a judicial conservative. In a recent event in which we both took part, ...
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Election Fallout for Next Supreme Court Vacancy -- By: ...
acslaw.org - 3 days ago
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Should a man be executed if his rookie
attorney failed to introduce evidence of mental incapacity?
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SCOTUS Preview: Wood v. Allen
legaltimes.typepad.com - 3 days ago
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It's a rarely used, dusty corner of the
Supreme Court's jurisdiction. And on Monday the Court decided
to leave it undisturbed, rejecting a request by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit to resolve a question that could...
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Supreme Court Rejects 5th Circuit Plea in Kidnap Case
weeklystandard.com - 10 days ago
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Attorney General Eric Holder tries to kill a
TV ad supporting D.C. school vouchers. by Sheryl Henderson
Blunt 10/27/2009 12:00:00 AM
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Silencing Voices for School Choice
cdobs.com - 8 days ago
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President Obama isn’t taking kindly to a television
ad that criticizes his opposition to a popular scholarship
program for poor children, and his administration wants the ad pulled.
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Attorney General Eric Holder Tries to Kill a TV ad for ...
google.com - 2 days ago
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6 hours ago WASHINGTON He's a right-leaning New
Jersey native with a lifelong love of the Phillies.
She's a liberal New Yorker who grew up near Yankee Stadium. They're eying each other warily these days from opposite ends of the Supreme Court bench. ...
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The Associated Press: SUPREME COURT NOTEBOOK: Justices ...
acslaw.org - 4 days ago
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Storm clouds appear to be gathering over two
of President Obama's judicial nominees facing what Professor Carl
Tobias calls an increasingly tight "bottle neck in the Senate." Apparently added to the hit-list for those obstructing nominations are Judge David Hamilton, nominated to the U.S. Court ...
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Mounting Challenges to Judicial Nominations
politicalwire.com - 10 days ago
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In an appearance at the University of Arizona,
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia "said he likely would
have dissented from the historic 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision that declared school segregation illegal and struck down the system of ...
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Scalia Would Have Voted to Keep School Segregation
politicalwire.com - 11 days ago
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"Andrew Cuomo has secretly notified Rudy Giuliani that
he will run for governor next year," according to
the New York Post . "The confidential message, conveyed through intermediaries, was delivered to Giuliani recently and is expected to play a ...
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Cuomo Tells Giuliani He's Running
deathby1000papercuts.com - 13 days ago
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Australian authorities are set to offer a $1
million award for the mastermind behind the murder of
a self-proclaimed “200-yr-old vampire”.
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Vampire Killer Sought by Aussie Authorities: Million ...
onthehillblog.blogspot.com - 11 days ago
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According to Air Force documents, the companies claimed
to be small, minority-owned businesses, which allowed them to
gain special preference in bidding for government contracts. But investigators found that they were all part of a larger minority-owned enterprise in Southern California, making
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Stimulus Contracts Go to Companies Under Criminal ...
reason.com - 10 days ago
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In the latest New Republic , historian Steven
Hahn has a long and very interesting review of
the recent Booker T. Washington biography Up from History . As Hahn discusses, Washington famously championed economic advancement and education ...
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The Black Conservative Tradition
yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 10 days ago
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Reading Steven Hahn on Booker T. Washington ,
I kept thinking that the effort to re-evaluate Washington’s
career would benefit from the concept of a “black conservative” political tradition that Ta-Nehisi Coates deployed in his ...
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Booker T. Washington and the Black Conservative Tradition
lawprofessors.typepad.com - 11 days ago
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Justice Clarence Thomas, in a talk at the
University of Alabama School of Law, yesterday reportedly said
that the Justices already know where they stand before oral argument, and asked, "So why do you beat up on people if you...
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More listening and more diversity needed on SCOTUS, says ...
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com - 4 days ago
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The effort by a conservative county prosecutor in
Arizona to hire a big-name Washington lawyer power couple
to go after a local official has hit a roadblock. Earlier this month, we told you how Maricopa county prosecutor Andrew Thomas, working ...
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Not So Fast! DC GOP Power Couple Roadblocked On ...
huffingtonpost.com - 13 days ago
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Clarence Thomas, the justice long
known as the silent member of the Supreme Court,
criticized his colleagues Friday for badgering attorneys rather than letting them speak during oral arguments. Thomas – who hasn't ...
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Clarence Thomas To Other Supreme Court Justices: Be Quiet




