From the lead paragraph of an AP op-ed news story: WASHINGTON May 23, 2005 - In a dramatic reach across party lines, Senate centrists agreed Monday night on a compromise that clears the way for confirmation of many of President ...
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Underlying the fondness for the judicial filibuster is the scantily-disguised philosophy that the minority knows better than the majority. Husband David has considered this philosophy, and found it wanting: To hear Senate Democrats talk, you'd think that only majorities are ...
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Cliff Kincaid says: In a front-page story on May 2, the New York Times accused the new Republican chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting of "aggressively pressing public television to correct what he and other conservatives consider liberal bias..." ...
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From William F. Buckley on the "nuclear option": "Really, you would think the Republicans had proposed to topple the Statue of Liberty." ...
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Activists from the black leadership network Project 21 are praising Senate leaders for their efforts to secure an up-or-down vote on the nomination of California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown for a seat on the federal Circuit Court of ...
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Activists from the black leadership network Project 21 are praising Senate leaders for their efforts to secure an up-or-down vote on the nomination of California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown for a seat on the federal Circuit Court of ...
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Five former Senators have sent a letter to Senate leaders Frist and Reid on judicial nominations: May 20, 2005 Senator Bill Frist, M.D. Majority Leader S-230, The Capitol Washington, DC 20510 Senator Harry Reid Democratic Leader S-221, The Capitol Washington, ...
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A page one story by Dan Balz in Friday's Washington Post says a small group of Senators "working to avert a historic showdown over President Bush's judicial nominees" are attempting to "codify the principles of trust." "Trust" is not a ...
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Salon has a new article posted Friday listing the "extremist credentials" of seven Bush judicial nominees. The article's first complaint: An assessment of the nominees' records suggests that all consider government regulation a central problem, while they view private enterprise ...
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Project 21 has just issued a press release praising Justice Janice Rogers Brown and calling Brown a "role model of American achievement." ...
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