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Federal Judge Rejects Tobacco Companies' Effort to Block Key Provisions of New Law

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 23:15:17 +0000

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.

MediaMan posted 28 hours ago from onthehillblog.blogspot.com

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Death is different, but is it all that different from life without parole?

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 22:20:09 +0000

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 and proportional." It is constitutionally ...

Slate Magazine found this 2 days ago on slate.com

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Paterson hires

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 17:00:27 +0000

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 out is through New York's powerful unions. ...

Political Animal found this 34 hours ago on politico.com

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Exclusive: Paterson readies ad campaign

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 23:01:27 +0000

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 another term in office, according to a ...

Taegan Goddard's Political Wire found this 2 days ago on politico.com

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Election Fallout for Next Supreme Court Vacancy -- By: Ed Whelan

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 15:32:21 +0000

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, SCOTUSblog’s Tom Goldstein stated emphatically ...

SCOTUSblog found this 2 days ago on bench.nationalreview.com

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SCOTUS Preview: Wood v. Allen

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 20:34:44 +0000

Should a man be executed if his rookie attorney failed to introduce evidence of mental incapacity?

CitizenCassidy posted 4 days ago from acslaw.org

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Supreme Court Rejects 5th Circuit Plea in Kidnap Case

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 15:12:40 +0000

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...

How Appealing found this 4 days ago on legaltimes.typepad.com

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Silencing Voices for School Choice

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:22:25 +0000

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

Chicago Boyz found this 10 days ago on weeklystandard.com

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Mounting Challenges to Judicial Nominations

Mon, 2 Nov 2009 20:13:17 +0000

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 ...

CitizenCassidy posted 5 days ago from acslaw.org

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The Associated Press: SUPREME COURT NOTEBOOK: Justices split on Series

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 12:10:57 +0000

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. Justices Samuel Alito and Sonia Sotomayor ...

How Appealing found this 3 days ago on google.com

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Scalia Would Have Voted to Keep School Segregation

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:00:00 +0000

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 'separate but equal'; public schools," the ...

The Political Carnival found this 11 days ago on politicalwire.com

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Cuomo Tells Giuliani He's Running

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:40:36 +0000

"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 central role in the former mayor's impending ...

The Hollywood Liberal found this 12 days ago on politicalwire.com

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Vampire Killer Sought by Aussie Authorities: Million Dollar Reward Offered

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 03:57:52 +0000

Australian authorities are set to offer a $1 million award for the mastermind behind the murder of a self-proclaimed “200-yr-old vampire”.

mondoreb posted 13 days ago from deathby1000papercuts.com

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Stimulus Contracts Go to Companies Under Criminal Investigation

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:07:26 +0000

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

MediaMan posted 12 days ago from onthehillblog.blogspot.com

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The Black Conservative Tradition

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:36:23 +0000

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 over political activism as the key to black ...

Matthew Yglesias found this 11 days ago on reason.com

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'60 Minutes': Medicare Fraud Raises 'Troubling Questions About Our Government's Ability to Manage a Medical Bureaucracy'

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:59:00 +0000

"60 Minutes" did a fabulous exposé Sunday on Medicare fraud that should be required viewing for all people who support a government run healthcare program in this country. The facts and figures presented by CBS's Steve Kroft were disturbing as were the details concerning how shysters ...

USS Neverdock found this 12 days ago on newsbusters.org

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Booker T. Washington and the Black Conservative Tradition

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:24:00 +0000

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 profile of Bill Cosby . To the Google I went ...

Hit & Run found this 11 days ago on yglesias.thinkprogress.org

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Fox News- Wash. Times witch hunt takes aim at new target: judicial nominee Edward Chen

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:10:00 +0000

Fox News and The Washington Times have used a series of comments reportedly made by Edward Chen -- one of President Obama's judicial nominees -- to smear him as a "radical leftist" who "doesn't appear to love America," and as a "biased radical" when, in fact, the quotes in question establish ...

The Hollywood Liberal found this 9 days ago on mediamatters.org

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Arizona Public Media

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:18:56 +0000

Justice Stephen Breyer (left), Pete Williams and Justice Antonin Scalia A discussion between Justice Stephen Breyer (left) and Justice Antonin Scalia (right), moderated by Pete Williams, NBC News Justice Correspondent (center). A Conversation On The Constitution: Principles of Constitutional ...

How Appealing found this 12 days ago on tv.azpm.org

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More listening and more diversity needed on SCOTUS, says Justice Thomas

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:18:42 +0000

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...

SCOTUSblog found this 12 days ago on lawprofessors.typepad.com

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