Can Baseball Survive the Supreme Court Confirmation Process?
It's time to stop the baseball analogies now. If we don't quickly divorce baseball from this Court, it will ruin baseball.
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Schumer Says Reform by Labor Day, While Cowardly Democrats Vote with Sessions
Frank Sharry | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics
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Why are Democrats letting Senator Sessions set the agenda with empty, irrelevant, "build the fence bigger" immigration amendments?
For This Wise African American, Sotomayor Hearings Reveal the Heart of Race Conflict in America
Eric Deggans | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics
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The GOP decries Sotomayor's statements about heritage, but in 2005 another Supreme Court nominee told the Senate that in discrimination cases, he often takes into account his own family's history.
Obama Faces First National Security Failure as Sotomayor and Health Care Hang in the Balance
Kimberly Krautter | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics
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Last week's sustained cyber-attacks on some of our country's most sensitive government networks exposed how a country that lives by the technology can also perish by the technology.
The GOP's Canny Hit Plan on Sotomayor
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics
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The GOP's goal is to bully, cow, and badger Sotomayor on the hit points to insure that she toes the line not solely before the panel, but on the bench.
Sessions Greets Sotomayor With "Wise Latina" Comment
AP | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics
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WASHINGTON — The top-ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee has greeted Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor with skepticism. Se...
Obama Revives Bush Plan To Seek Out Illegal Workers
The Washington Post | Posted 08.09.2009 | Politics
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President Obama will abandon a controversial immigration crackdown, sought by his predecessor, to pressure U.S. companies to fire 9 million workers wi...
Sessions Uses Sotomayor as a Pawn in His Lifelong Crusade Against Civil Rights
Ian Millhiser | Posted 08.09.2009 | Politics
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Given Sessions' history of baseless assaults on civil rights, one has to wonder whether conservatives chose him as their leading voice on Sotomayor because they fundamentally agree with his lifelong stance on race.
As Rove Testifies About Firings At Justice, Why Did DoJ Fire Whistleblower?
Andrew Kreig | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics
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New questions are surfacing about political intrigue at the U.S. Justice Department.
Sessions Claims Sotomayor Tied To "Extreme" Group
AP | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | Posted 08.03.2009 | Politics
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WASHINGTON — A civil rights group advised by Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor in the 1980s brought several discrimination lawsuits that sou...
So Senator Sessions Doesn't Want a Judge Who Follows the Law?
Judith E. Schaeffer | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics
Sen. Sessions spent much of his time criticizing a dissent by Judge Sotomayor in the case of Hayden v. Pataki, in which Judge Sotomayor followed the plain words of the federal statute in question, apparently to Sen. Sessions' dismay.
Alabama Decisions Illustrate Abuse of Judicial Power
Andrew Kreig | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics
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The plight of litigants who face a biased judge is illustrated by the track record of one prominent Alabama federal judge, as well by major recent decisions requiring new trials in West Virginia and Georgia courts.
Sunday Roundup
Arianna Huffington | Posted 07.07.2009 | Home
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Listening to Liz Cheney falsely suggest that President Obama wants to deal with terrorists by "hand-holding," and falsely insist that her father never suggested there was a link between 9/11 and Iraq made me wish that TV execs were planning to do a political version of I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! I'd much rather see Cheney put a tarantula in her mouth (a la Patti Blagojevich) than continually sticking her foot there. She could be joined in the jungle by fellow foot muncher Sen. Jeff Sessions, who demonstrated the value of empathy when he showed none, reacting to the tears of a 12-year old boy whose mother is facing deportation by saying, "Enough with the histrionics." And there is still time to suggest the 5-word acceptance speech I should give at tomorrow's Webby Awards.
Friday Talking Points [80] -- Parsing Obama's Cairo Speech
Chris Weigant | Posted 07.06.2009 | World
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This is an interesting and refreshing subtext in Obama's entire speech -- he says things are "facts" and not opinions. Considering the lunacy that passes for "political debate" on American television screens -- where there are always two points of view, and every "fact" is subject to spin from one side or another -- it is a breath of fresh air.
Jeff Sessions Irked By Crying Child: "Enough With The Histrionics" (VIDEO)
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics
Yesterday the Senate Judiciary Committee had a hearing on the Uniting American Families Act, a bill that will "amend the Immigration and Nationality A...
Jeff Sessions Annoyed By Crying Child At Hearing
The New Republic | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics
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Yesterday, the Senate Judiciary Committe held the first-ever hearing on the Uniting American Families Act, which would equalize the status of foreign-...
Senator Sessions, Judge Sotomayor, And Racism
Chris Weigant | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics
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In all the hoopla over Judge Sonia Sotomayor being nominated to the Supreme Court, there is one interesting side story that the media is largely ignor...
Sessions On Alito: We "Don't Have To Read Everything He's Written"
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.03.2009 | Politics
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As the leading Republican voice on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Jeff Sessions is insisting that Judge Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Supr...
Will the Fight Over Gay Marriage Be the End of Right vs. Left Thinking?
Arianna Huffington | Posted 07.02.2009 | Politics
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Not that long ago, gay marriage was a dependable wedge issue Republicans could use to keep its base in line. But now that wedge is clearly splintering.
Top Republican Has Effusive Praise For Sotomayor (VIDEO)
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 07.01.2009 | Politics
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***SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO*** Sen. Patrick Leahy, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, let his Republican counterpart do the heavy lifting o...
Mitch McConnell Refuses To Condemn "Racist" Accusations
Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 07.01.2009 | Politics
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Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the Senate, refused on Sunday to condemn controversial comments made by Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh call...
William Smith, GOP Chief Counsel, Links Gay Marriage To Pedophilia
Legal Times | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics
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The new chief Republican counsel for the Senate Judiciary Committee wrote a blog post last month in which he linked same-sex marriage to pedophilia, a...
Sessions: Obama's Court Nominees No Longer Get "Powerful Deference"
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics
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The rationale is gradually being put in place for Republicans to mount a filibuster of Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee. On Sunday, the ranking m...
Sunday Roundup
Arianna Huffington | Posted 06.16.2009 | Home
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Next week, Adam and Kris duke it out to see who will be the next American Idol. This week, Republicans duked it out to see who would be the next American Idiot. Sen. Jeff Sessions argued for keeping Guantanamo open by pointing to the "tropical breezes blowing through" the prison. Rep. Pete Sessions claimed President Obama is intentionally driving up unemployment and diminishing stock prices to "inflict damage and hardship on the free enterprise system." And Kim Hendren, a Republican Senate candidate from Arkansas, referred to Chuck Schumer at a campaign event as "that Jew," then dug himself deeper: "I was attempting to explain that unlike Sen. Schumer, I believe in traditional values, like we used to see on The Andy Griffith Show." I guessed he missed the episode about Goober's bar mitzvah. The Grand Oy Party.
Jeff Sessions Cites "Tropical Breezes" As Reason To Keep Guantanamo Open
Washington Post | Paul Kane | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics
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Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) today defended the continued detention of al-Qaeda prisoners at the military facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, calling it ...
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