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Obama Revives Bush Plan To Seek Out Illegal Workers

The Washington Post | Posted 07.09.2009 | 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...

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Sessions Uses Sotomayor as a Pawn in His Lifelong Crusade Against Civil Rights

Ian Millhiser | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sotomayor Racism, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court, Jeff Sessions, Justice, Sotomayor, Sonia Sotomayor, Politics News
Ian Millhiser

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.

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As Rove Testifies About Firings At Justice, Why Did DoJ Fire Whistleblower?

Andrew Kreig | Posted 07.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tamarah Grimes, John Conyers, Karl Rove, Don Siegelman, Jeff Sessions, Artur Davis, Eric Holder, Richard Scrushy, Politics News
Andrew Kreig

New questions are surfacing about political intrigue at the U.S. Justice Department.

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Sessions Claims Sotomayor Tied To "Extreme" Group

AP | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | Posted 07.03.2009 | 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...

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So Senator Sessions Doesn't Want a Judge Who Follows the Law?

Judith E. Schaeffer | Posted 06.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Jeff Sessions, Constitution, Sonia Sotomayor, Politics News
Judith E. Schaeffer

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.

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Alabama Decisions Illustrate Abuse of Judicial Power

Andrew Kreig | Posted 06.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Karl Rove, U.S. Attorney Firings, Don Siegelman, Sonia Sotomayor, Jeff Sessions, Eric Holder, Mark Fuller, Richard Scrushy, Charles Walker, Politics News
Andrew Kreig

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.

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Sunday Roundup

Arianna Huffington | Posted 06.06.2009 | Home

Read More: Blagojevich I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here, Liz Cheney, Webby Awards, I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here, Sessions, Jeff Sessions, Webbys, Patti Blagojevich, Iraq, Home News
Arianna Huffington

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.

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Friday Talking Points [80] -- Parsing Obama's Cairo Speech

Chris Weigant | Posted 06.05.2009 | World

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Chris Weigant

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.

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Jason Linkins

Jeff Sessions Irked By Crying Child: "Enough With The Histrionics" (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.05.2009 | Politics

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Yesterday the Senate Judiciary Committee had a hearing on the Uniting American Families Act, a bill that will "amend the Immigration and Nationality A...

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Jeff Sessions Annoyed By Crying Child At Hearing

The New Republic | Posted 06.04.2009 | 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-...

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Senator Sessions, Judge Sotomayor, And Racism

Chris Weigant | Posted 06.03.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

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...

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Sam Stein

Sessions On Alito: We "Don't Have To Read Everything He's Written"

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.02.2009 | 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...

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Will the Fight Over Gay Marriage Be the End of Right vs. Left Thinking?

Arianna Huffington | Posted 06.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rush Limbaugh, James Inhofe, Jeff Sessions, Tom Tancredo, Dick Cheney, John Cornyn, Ban on Gay Marriages, Sonia Sotomayor, Dick Cheney Gay Marriage, Ted Olsen, Sotomayor Nomination, Newt Gingrich, Gay Marriage, Left vs. Right, David Boies, Politics News
Arianna Huffington

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.

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Ryan Grim

Top Republican Has Effusive Praise For Sotomayor (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.31.2009 | 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...

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Mitch McConnell Refuses To Condemn "Racist" Accusations

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 05.31.2009 | 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...

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William Smith, GOP Chief Counsel, Links Gay Marriage To Pedophilia

Legal Times | Posted 05.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gop, Senate Judiciary Committee, Nambla, Jeff Sessions, William Smith, Log Cabin Republicans, Steve Schmidt, Gay Marriage, Politics News

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...

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Sam Stein

Sessions: Obama's Court Nominees No Longer Get "Powerful Deference"

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.18.2009 | 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...

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Sunday Roundup

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.16.2009 | Home

Read More: Chuck Schumer, Job Losses, Unemployment, Guantanamo Detainees, Jeff Sessions, Chuck Schumer That Jew, American Idol, Gitmo, Pete Sessions, Republicans, Home News
Arianna Huffington

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.

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Anti-Abortion Lobby Takes Another Hit

Craig Crawford | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics

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Craig Crawford

Anti-abortion activists are really out of luck if the top GOP senator for reviewing Supreme Court nominees sticks by his words that he will support a "pro abortion" pick.

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Jeff Sessions Cites "Tropical Breezes" As Reason To Keep Guantanamo Open

Washington Post | Paul Kane | Posted 05.13.2009 | 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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What Can We Expect Now that Sessions Leads Republicans on Judges?

Nan Aron | Posted 05.11.2009 | Politics

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Nan Aron

Who is Senator Sessions? He's has been an outspoken opponent of the Voting Rights Act, immigration reform, embryonic stem cell research, and a woman's right to choose.

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Obama's Supreme Pick: No Drama, No Bomber

Rick Horowitz | Posted 05.11.2009 | Politics

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Rick Horowitz

when Republicans actually come face-to-face, or even voice-to-voice, with the actual Obama, they can't help but be reassured -- or is it disappointed? -- that he's not the bogeyman they've made him out to be.

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Jason Linkins

Sessions: Gay Supreme Court Nominee "Would Be A Big Concern"

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.08.2009 | Politics

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Yesterday morning, Jeff Sessions made news after he appeared on Morning Joe and said, of the pending SCOTUS nomination, "I don't think a person who ac...

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What in the World is Jeff Sessions Talking About?

Doug Kendall | Posted 05.07.2009 | Politics

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Doug Kendall

The issue is whether American judges may look for guidance in how judges in other countries with similar legal systems have resolved similar disputes.

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Focus On The Family: We Don't Oppose Gay Supreme Court Nominee

The Plumline | Posted 05.07.2009 | Politics

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In a move that will surprise gay activists and liberals, a spokesperson for Focus on the Family, a top religious right group, tells me that his organi...

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