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Rejecting The Joe Biden Gambit
Firedoglake —
... Will the infamous answer one day be known as The Biden Gambit or established as the Biden Doctrine?
I think the answer is up to us. This weeks Eric Holder Executive Nomination hearing is our next best chance to formulate questions which must be asked by members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and answered this time.
Is Harry Reid Really Trying to Push Tom Coburn Off the Judiciary Committee?
TPM Election Central —
... documents, precedent shows that Democrats' likely 59-seat majority (once the Minnesota and Illinois seats are resolved) entitles them at least a two-seat advantage on most Senate committees. Since no one above Coburn on the judiciary committee lost a race or retired last year, he's out of luck -- unless he can convince a more senior member to give up their seat on the plum panel. ...
Rejecting the Joe Biden Gambit Part II: Eric Holder, Rook or Pawn?
Firedoglake —
... Unacceptable. We don't need a kinder, more gentle Unitary Executive Pawn, do we? We learned during the Bush-Cheney years that the placement of a complicit Attorney General played one of the most important roles in weakening our Constitution, and the Rule of Law. We learned during Michael Mukasey's nomination hearings just what kind of questions a nominee could evade and yet gain the highest Department of Justice position in the land.
On Thursday and Friday the Senate Judiciary Committee will begin the Executive Nomination Hearings for Eric ...
Holder's AG Confirmation Hearing Today
Daily Kos —
... a peg," kicks in. The confirmation hearing for Eric Holder, Obama's pick for attorney general, promises to be bruising... Part of the opposing party's goal in tough questioning, analysts say, is to take the incoming president down a peg, to force him to spend political capital early in the term, thereby lessening the capital he can spend on policy battles down the road. Holder has the support of the Democratic Senators on the Judiciary Committee, along with the backing of Orrin Hatch, the endorsement of three ...
The Best and the Brightest
Matthew Yglesias —
... I was going to say something mean about the minority party members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, but then I took a look at the membership and I realized something important: ...
Programming note
How Appealing —
Programming note: On the morning of Monday, July 13, 2009, many eyes will be on a group of U.S. Senators and a nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Tonight, by contrast, I and my son will be watching as the Harrisburg Senators host the Reading Phillies in a AA Eastern League minor league baseball contest.
There may be fireworks at some point during the confirmation hearing that starts on Monday, but there will definitely be fireworks tonight, along with a baseball cap giveaway and a salute to Star ...
Bloggers and the Federal Shield Law
Daily Kos —
... His office wouldn't be more specific either about the White House objections (I've got a request into the White House asking for their objections), or which Democrats on the Judiciary committee have problems with citizen journalists. Here's the full list of them: Leahy (VT), Kohl (WI), Feinstein (CA), Feingold (WI), Schumer (NY), Durbin (IL), Cardin (MD), Whitehouse (RI), Klobuchar (MN), Kaufman (DE), Specter (PA), and Franken (MN). ...
Lindsey Graham: South Carolina’s Missing Senator
RedState —
... Lindsey Graham is listed as on official member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, according to the Committee’s website, but when the Committee does business on Thursday mornings, Graham is conspicuously absent. Insiders have indicated to me that this is beginning to aggravate the other Republicans on the Committee. ...
