Jul 21, 2009 8 Comments ›› Erik Wong
This man is on his way out, and the Dems call him back from the dead so they'll have enough votes to strong-arm through key issues. After this, I'm sure they'll consider that Byrd has outlived his usefulness and severed off to die quietly, knowing that he was used on his last legs to push ...
Continue ReadingJul 20, 2009 9 Comments ›› Erik Wong
The Times Online: Increasing numbers of non-Muslims are turning to Sharia courts to resolve commercial disputes and other civil matters, The Times has learned. The Muslim Arbitration Tribunal (MAT) said that 5 per cent of its cases involved non-Muslims who were using the courts because they were less cumbersome and more informal than the English legal system. Freed ...
Continue ReadingJul 18, 2009 4 Comments ›› Erik Wong
POLITICO: Sonia Sotomayor's measured confirmation performance may have served her well, but it left the bases of both parties feeling that they've missed an opportunity. Liberals are concerned that Sotomayor's non-controversial approach – she largely declined to take positions on major issues, and seemed to side with conservatives on some constitutional matters – cost the Democratic party ...
Continue ReadingJul 16, 2009 8 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Fox News: The lead plaintiff in the New Haven firefighter case central to Sonia Sotomayor's Supreme Court nomination said Thursday that the federal appellate court judge ruled in his case based on "politics" and "personal feelings" -- and not the law. "Americans have the right to go into our federal courts and have their cases judged based ...
Continue ReadingJul 16, 2009 2 Comments ›› Erik Wong
The Daily Beast: Even some liberals are frustrated by Sonia Sotomayor’s carefully plotted answers this week. The Daily Beast’s Paul Campos on how she’s denying the truth about our legal system. Four hundred years ago, upon the occasion of his sudden religious conversion, Henry de Bourbon famously remarked that “Paris is well worth a Mass.†Converting from ...
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Continue ReadingJul 16, 2009 2 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
WAPO: The confirmation hearing of Sonia Sotomayor opened this morning for its fourth -- and perhaps final -- day, with Republicans reprising their criticism of her role in a discrimination case involving Connecticut firefighters that was recently overruled by the Supreme Court. As Republicans and Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee took turns in a second round ...
Continue ReadingJul 16, 2009 2 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Is he poised to join the Newt Gingrich Hall of Shame? Newt retracted his charge of racism in her judicial rulings. From Politico: In Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation hearings, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is sounding like a possible supporter. He opened up his comments by saying: "We’ll see what your future holds, but I think it’s ...
Continue ReadingJul 15, 2009 3 Comments ›› Erik Wong
POLITICO: Republicans failed to push Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor off what appears to be her steady stride towards confirmation Wednesday, though in a series of low-key exchanges she did retreat further on some of her controversial past statements. Sotomayor gave ground on comments about the role of physical differences in judging and seemed to pull back ...
Continue ReadingJul 14, 2009 12 Comments ›› Erik Wong
WASHINGTON - Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor firmly denied racial bias Tuesday at her Senate confirmation hearing and said an oft-criticized remark about her Hispanic heritage affecting judicial decisions was a rhetorical device gone awry. An attempted play on words "fell flat" in a speech in 2001, Sotomayor told Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., referring to ...
Continue ReadingJul 13, 2009 7 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Watch them call him a "right wing extremist." The Jerusalem Post: Anton Winkler, a spokesman for the Munich Prosecutor, confirmed to The Jerusalem Post on Monday that John Demjanjuk has been formally charged with being an accessory to murder of 27,900 Jews in the Sobibor Nazi extermination camp during World War Two. The zigzagging legal process surrounding ...
Continue ReadingJul 13, 2009 12 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Watching the hearings live on Fox. It is sickeningly PC. Hearings to continue tomorrow. Developing... Video: Dem Casts Chief Justice Roberts As Activist Judge During Sotomayor Hearings WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats praised Sonia Sotomayor as a judicial pioneer, but Republicans questioned her impartiality and President Barack Obama's views as well Monday at confirmation hearings for the nation's ...
Continue ReadingJul 13, 2009 6 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Above quote from Peter Wilson. The Wall Street Journal: WASHINGTON -- A secret Central Intelligence Agency initiative terminated by Director Leon Panetta was an attempt to carry out a 2001 presidential authorization to capture or kill al Qaeda operatives, according to former intelligence officials familiar with the matter. The precise nature of the highly classified effort isn't clear, ...
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