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Entries by Doug Kendall from 10/2010

The Real Nuclear Option

| Posted 10.05.2010 | Politics
Read More: Senate Confirmation, Senate Confirmation Hearings, Obama Judge Appointments, Judges, Politics News

Holding rank-and-file judicial nominees hostage to advance a larger political agenda is the current political "nuclear option" and, if this continues, it is the judiciary and Americans seeking justice who will bear the fallout.

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The Chamber, Citizens United, and the Campaign for the Third Branch

| Posted 10.26.2010 | Politics
Read More: Powell Memorandum, Supreme Court, Chamber of Commerce, Koch, Center for American Progress, Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia, Politics News

While the success of the Chamber of Commerce's attempt to influence the mid-term election remains to be seen, we already know that its decades-long effort to influence the United States judiciary has been a resounding success.

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