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WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has agreed to
pay for a private lawyer to defend former Attorney
General Alberto Gonzales against allegations that he encouraged officials to inject partisan politics into the department's hiring and firing ...
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billwarner
posted 28 hours ago from
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While this committee report appropriately observed the value
of outreach and engagement with Arab Americans and American
Muslims as vital to securing the freedom and safety of our nation, the overall findings of the report make the dangerous and unsubstantiated claim that the threat posed by ...
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WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has agreed to
pay for a private lawyer to defend former Attorney
General Alberto Gonzales against allegations that he encouraged officials to inject partisan politics into the department's hiring and firing ...
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To defend him against charges that he politicized
DOJ hiring practices, Alberto Gonzales will have a private
attorney -- on the taxpayers' dime, reports McClatchy. The move, requested by Gonzo himself, will likely end up costing taxpayers about ...
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Illustration by David Vogin I first got into
journalism because I thought I could make a difference.
I wrote for the school newspaper and did news reports on a radio station a friend and I started at my high school in Springfield, Mo. I got my ...
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A PEEK BEHIND THE CURTAIN.... Dan Shelley was
the news director of a radio station in Wisconsin,
featuring a few popular right-wing talk-show hosts, who generated large audiences by doing what right-wing talk-show hosts do. Shelley, in a fascinating ...
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Yesterday the Supreme Court heard a case about
the reach of the Federal Gun Control Act and
whether it includes someone convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence. The case was less about the Second Amendment than how to read a badly drafted 1996 ...
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The Supreme Court, dividing deeply, upheld the Navy’s
power to use sonar in military training exercises, even
though the technology threatens marine life in the training zone off the Pacific Coast. Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., wrote for ...
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Analysis If a case does not fit within
a constitutional pigeonhole, is there no other way to
define it so that a legal dispute can be decided? That was the lingering question Wednesday as the Supreme Court tried to hack its way through a thicket ...
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billwarner
posted 10 days ago from
wwwwbipicomlink.blogspot.com
Today, Mr. Hayden, Ms. Dohrn and Mr. Joseph
are the trash that are going to be forced
down our throats through Pres-Elect Barack Obama's Community Organization programs. Both Dohrn and Jamal Joseph did time in Federal Prisons.
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The action leaves intact a rule that allows
the use of "victim impact evidence" in death penalty
cases. In 1991, the high court upheld this rule and said prosecutors may tell the jury about the victim, the victim's life and the effect of loss on ...
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Supporters of same-sex marriage need to focus on
persuading their fellow citizens, not the courts - as
the California vote demonstrated.
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg provided
a rare inside look at the human side of
the venerable institution in an appearance Thursday at Princeton University, giving the audience a peek at the personal interactions of the justices and ...
Taxpayers will pay for Gonzales' private attorney