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David Vitter doesn't know if Loving was decided correctly (video)

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:07:59 +0000

After having very little to say beyond, "The Senator believes judges should follow the law and not legislate from the bench" when asked about the r...

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Dems To Vitter: Denounce Glenn Beck's Landrieu-Prostitute Analogies

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:20:04 +0000

The Louisiana Democratic Party, in a rather humorous and bold press release on Tuesday, called for Senator David Vitter (R-La.) to denounce conservatives who have called his fellow Sen. Mary Landrieu (D) a prostitute for her support of health care reform. Vitter, of course, has his own sordid ...

Daily Kos found this 5 days ago on huffingtonpost.com

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Sen. Vitter doesn’t know if Loving v. Virginia was a correct decision: ‘I haven’t read the case’

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:00:00 +0000

by Pam Spaulding Who’d have thought we’d be talking about miscegenation in 2009? But as we saw yesterday , and now with this bit of business, there are people who have “Jungle Fever” still eating away at their bigoted brains 40+ years after Loving v. Virginia . For ...

Crooks and Liars found this 11 days ago on pandagon.net

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Senator Vitter doesn’t know if Loving was correctly decided.

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:44:32 +0000

Vitter graduated Tulane Law School in 1988. Loving v. Virginia, decided in 1967, was a unanimous Supreme Court decision that declared state anti-miscegenation (interracial marriage) laws unconstitutional. It is one of the bedrock civil rights cases, right up there with Brown. It is simply not ...

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Vitter predicts Reid will get exactly 60 votes on first health test

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:17:37 +0000

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) will get exactly the 60 votes he needs to pass healthcare reform legislation through its first test tomorrow, Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) said Friday. Reid on Thursday scheduled a cloture vote on a motion to proceed yesterday. The vote is the first ...

Ezra Klein found this 10 days ago on thehill.com

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HOH's One-Minute Recess: Silk-Stalking Vitter

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:54:00 +0000

In what has to be one of HOH's favorite sightings since the time that former Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del.) browsed Victoria's Secret, an HOH tipster reported seeing none other than Sen. David Vitter wandering around the lingerie department of the downtown Filene's Basement on Saturday.

The Political Carnival found this 6 days ago on rollcall.com

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ClimateGate: Vitter Staffer Accuses Researchers Of ‘Greatest Act Of Scientific Fraud In History’

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:28:45 +0000

Embracing the fevered speculations of right-wing bloggers, a top Republican Senate staffer has accused climate scientists of orchestrating a planetwide conspiracy to convince the public that global warming is real. In an error-ridden email acquired by the Wonk Room, Bryan Zumwalt, legislative ...

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Will PhRMA’s Fax Machines in the Senate Continue Eshoo’s Work?

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:49:46 +0000

Ask Sherrod Brown to save us from PhRMA and the Eshoo/Hagan/ lobbyist-written biologics legislation HERE. Well, we now know that 42 bipartisan members of the House were willing to act act as PhRMA’s fax machines. I guess it shouldn’t have been a surprise — 80 House Dems ...

Blue Commonwealth - Front Page found this 14 days ago on fdlaction.firedoglake.com

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