Apr 13, 2010 8 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Politico: Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) are putting the final touches on a bill that would restrict the types of companies that could air campaign ads and require those that did to disclose precisely how much they spent on such ads – and possibly force their CEO’s to appear in them. Their ...
Continue ReadingApr 13, 2010 4 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Guess why Obama attacked the Supreme Court in his State of the Union address? It was part of a broader plot... Politico: Democrats hope to turn the upcoming Supreme Court confirmation hearings into a referendum of sorts on controversial recent decisions by the Roberts court — portraying the conservative majority as a judicial Goliath trampling the ...
Continue ReadingApr 13, 2010 1 Comment ›› Pat Dollard
Jake Tapper's Political Punch: Knowledgeable sources tell ABC News that the fewer than 10 possible US Supreme Court nominees on President Obama's short list include the following: 1. Solicitor General Elena Kagan‬‪ 2. Judge Merrick Garland (DC Circuit Court)‬‪ 3. Judge Diane Wood (7th circuit, Chicago)‬‪ 4. Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm‬‪ (D) 5. Former Georgia Supreme ...
Continue ReadingApr 12, 2010 6 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
The Hill: The Senate's only African-American member late Monday called on President Barack Obama to appoint a black nominee to the Supreme Court. Sen. Roland Burris (D-Ill.) told The Hill he is "working on" a list of qualified, potential African-American candidates to send Obama for the court vacancy that will be created this summer with the retirement ...
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LAS VEGAS (AP) - A Nevada Supreme Court panel is scheduling oral arguments June 11 in Las Vegas on pending appeals by O.J. Simpson and a co-defendant convicted of kidnapping, armed robbery and other charges in a September 2007 hotel room heist. A clerk for the state high court in Carson City says a panel of ...
Continue ReadingApr 11, 2010 3 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - Police in New Jersey believe they have solved one of the coldest cases in the state's history: the disappearance of five Newark teenagers in 1978. After tracking leads for 32 years, two men were arrested March 22 and charged with herding the teens at gunpoint into an abandoned rowhouse, tying them up ...
Continue ReadingApr 10, 2010 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
The Hill: Senate Democrats want confirmation proceedings for a new Supreme Court nominee to take no longer than Sonia Sotomayor’s. Democrats are already readying arguments and data to press for as quick a confirmation as possible. Aides close to the process say they want the confirmation of Stevens’s successor to follow the same general schedule as last year’s ...
Continue ReadingApr 9, 2010 9 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Politico: Liberal leaders see the resignation of Justice John Paul Stevens as a once-in-a-term opportunity for Obama to nominate an unabashed liberal to balance an increasingly conservative high court – while energizing the demoralized Democratic base just in time for the midterms. But few if any of the eight to ten potential nominees being mulled by the ...
Continue ReadingApr 9, 2010 5 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
WASHINGTON (AP) - The retirement of Justice John Paul Stevens, the Supreme Court's leading liberal, touched off an immediate election-year political battle Friday over President Barack Obama's second high court pick. Republicans promised trouble for any activist nominee. A White House official said about 10 people are under consideration, but speculation has focused on ...
Continue ReadingApr 9, 2010 3 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
The Hill: President Barack Obama promised to quickly name a Supreme Court nominee to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens. Obama said he spoke with Stevens Friday and that both agreed it is important to have a nominee confirmed and seated before the fall term begins in October. “So I will move quickly to name a nominee as ...
Continue ReadingApr 9, 2010 7 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Fox News: President Obama's pick to head the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel is withdrawing her nomination amid Republican protests over past statements she made on abortion and national security. Dawn Johnsen said she was dropping out of the process because her "nomination has met with lengthy delays and political opposition that threaten" her objective to ...
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The Hill: Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens announced Friday he will retire when the court wraps up its work for the summer break. The retirement gives President Barack Obama the chance to appoint a second justice to the court in two years, but could set off a bruising confirmation battle with Senate Republicans. The Stevens retirement was ...
Continue ReadingApr 8, 2010 1 Comment ›› Pat Dollard
By Mark J. Fitzgibbons in American Thinker: Measured just by the number of victims, there is no close second place to government as the biggest lawbreaker. Measured in terms of impact, government lawbreaking is disabling our entire society. When an individual or collection of individuals (such as a business) violates the law, there are victims who are ...
Continue ReadingApr 6, 2010 5 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Fox News: Senate Republicans on Tuesday slammed one of the Obama administration's most controversial judicial nominees for failing to initially disclose more than 100 of his speeches, publications and other background materials -- an omission the Republicans called unprecedented and a possible attempt to "hide his most controversial work." They said Goodwin Liu's nomination to the ...
Continue ReadingApr 2, 2010 6 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Politico: The White House’s aggressive drive to recalibrate its message and emphasize the issues it thinks will resonate best with voters could be upended if — as is widely expected — John Paul Stevens, the Supreme Court’s senior justice, decides it is time to retire. The retirement of the court’s 89-year-old liberal stalwart would confront President Barack ...
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RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) -- Animal rights activists yelled "puppy killer" and obscenities at a retired Los Angeles County assistant fire chief Friday after he was sentenced to 90 days in jail for beating a dog so severely with a rock it had to be euthanized. In a Riverside courtroom full of activists and a handful ...
Continue ReadingApr 2, 2010 15 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge on Friday ordered eight members of a militia group held in custody until they could be tried on accusations of plotting to kill police officers and wage a war on the U.S. government. U.S. Magistrate Judge Donald Scheer said each defendant posed a flight risk and "would constitute an unacceptable ...
Continue ReadingMar 29, 2010 18 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Here is the 12th Imam's YouTube page. Michelle Malkin: A search for “Norman LeBoon†on YouTube yields some bizarro stuff...a channel where a Norman LeBoon claims to be a Shia Muslim who is the 12th imam and this video where other Muslims angry at LeBoon refute his Mahdi claim. Us Attorney's Office In Philadelphia: Today, a two-count complaint ...
Continue ReadingMar 29, 2010 22 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
My Fox Boston: Nine teens have been charged in the "unrelenting" bullying of a teenage girl from Ireland who killed herself after being raped and enduring months of torment by classmates in person and online, a prosecutor said today. Northwestern District Attorney Elizabeth Scheibel said 15-year-old Phoebe Prince of South Hadley was stalked and harassed nearly constantly ...
Continue ReadingMar 26, 2010 2 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Federal prosecutors filed reduced charges Friday against conservative activist James O'Keefe and three others in costume as part of a gag stunt to ask Senator Mary Landrieu if he were phone were broken since no opponents of health care legislation seemed to be able to get through to her. The new charges ...
Continue ReadingMar 25, 2010 4 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
"As reported this weekend, the decision by the Obama Department of Justice to dismiss a default judgment against the New Black Panther Party and all but one individual defendant in an egregious case of voter intimidation is now the subject of two inquiries, one by the Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility and one by ...
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