The Hill: A federal judge’s ruling may have given President Obama a temporary victory in his administration’s suit against Arizona over its controversial immigration law, but a flurry of activity in other states suggests a much larger battle over immigration is in the works. Last week, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli issued an opinion authorizing [...]
Los Angeles Times: A group of gun owners who gathered Saturday on the Redondo Beach Pier to extol the virtues of the 2nd Amendment found themselves confronting a different hot-button legal issue: Redondo Beach Municipal Code 4-35.20 (a). Passed by the City Council in May, the ordinance prohibits guns in public parks. The city attorney [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Iraq’s military is ready and able to take over security operations as the United States ends it combat role and prepares for a major troop withdrawal, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq said Sunday. Gen. Raymond T. Odierno said Iraq’s military has “stepped up” to the challenge even as Iraqi politicians [...]
Wall Street Journal: Oil giant BP PLC announced Sunday that a test on the cementing operation needed to plug its troubled well in the Gulf of Mexico was successful. In an announcement on its website Sunday, the company said that the pressure testing following the cementing operations indicates an effective cement plug in the pipe, [...]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – Federal authorities say two men who escaped from a private Arizona prison and a woman thought to have helped them are believed to be in the area around Yellowstone National Park. The U.S. Marshals Service says information has developed within the past two days that indicate Tracy Province, John McCluskey and [...]
Fox News: House Minority Leader John Boehner on Sunday said he’s open to talks on changing the U.S. Constitution — or at least the way it’s interpreted — so that U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants are not automatically U.S. citizens. “I think it’s worth considering,” Boehner said. The top House Republican joined Senate Minority Leader [...]
Dallas News: As Republican members of Congress press for changes to the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, preventing automatic citizenship for babies born to illegal immigrants, opponents insist the debate is not really about babies. Instead, they say it is about politics and votes – not fixing the immigration system. Still, the debate could [...]
Fox News: Just days after a New York City commission refused to grant landmark status for the building slated to house a proposed “mega mosque” near the site of the September 11th attacks, debate over the mosque’s construction continues. Jay Sekulow, chief counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice, tells Fox News the [...]
USA Today: Mormons took a lot of abuse for helping pass Proposition 8 in California, where 52% of voters banned the right of gay couples to marry in 2008. But will anyone thank Jehovah’s Witnesses for their role in getting the law declared unconstitutional? One of the biggest outcries over Prop 8 was that the [...]
The Hill: White House press secretary Robert Gibbs flatly dismissed Missouri’s vote Tuesday rejecting a key part of the healthcare law. Gibbs said Missouri’s vote approving a ballot initiative to exempt residents from the new law requiring individuals to buy health insurance was “of no legal significance.†Asked what it means that voters in Missouri [...]
Los Angeles Times: Jerry Brown was midway through a discourse about poverty at the San Francisco Faith Forum when he paused, focusing on two young white men dressed in preppy clothing who stood out in the largely African American crowd. One was holding an iPhone at shoulder level, subtly taping the Democratic gubernatorial nominee’s every [...]
Politico: When Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) laid out his opposition to Elena Kagan’s Supreme Court nomination, someone in the chamber appeared to be moving around in his chair, gasping and rolling his eyes. It was Al Franken. After his speech, a very irritated McConnell removed his microphone, approached the dais and confronted the [...]
