1.0 link 146361 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harper-jean-tobin/democratic-agenda-vs-cons_b_146361.html President-Elect Obama and the strengthened Democratic majority will come to Washington next year with an ambitious agenda and their best shot in a generation at enacting it. Yet while the American people have decisively rejected the policies of the last eight years, federal courts packed with ideological conservatives may prove to be a significant obstacle to the nation's new progressive agenda. George W. Bush has made a mark on the courts that will last for decades, appointing judges who are...

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