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Standing on One's Principles: An Interview With Ron Reagan

Mike Ragogna | Posted 11.12.2009 | Media

Ron Reagan is the son of a president and, weekdays on Air America, he's a voice of reason for many listeners who are trying to navigate the complexities of national and global concerns.

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Sandra Day O'Connor: Decisions Being "Dismantled" By Roberts Court

USA Today | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics

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Retired Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor says she regrets that some of her decisions "are being dismantled" by the current Supreme Court. ...

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6 Supreme Court Justices Attend Catholic Service Red Mass; Cardinal Pleads For Rights Of Unborn

AP | Posted 10.04.2009 | Home

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WASHINGTON — An American cardinal on Sunday issued a plea for the rights of the unborn at a church service that included Vice President Joe Bide...

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Supreme Court's New Season: Looking Ahead

Wall Street Journal | JESS BRAVIN | Posted 11.28.2009 | Politics

Questions before the Supreme Court, which begins its new term Monday, include corporate political spending, dog-fighting videos, a cross in the desert...

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Will the Corporate Supremes Now Dance on Democracy's Corpse?

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Thom Hartmann, Supreme Court, Russ Feingold, John McCain, Corporate Power, John Roberts, Campaign Finance, Politics News

The contradiction between human rights and corporate power is at the core of the cancer now killing our democracy.

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Did Thomas Jefferson Think Corporations Were People?

Carl Pope | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics

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Will the Supreme Court overturn 102 years of precedent and rule that corporations have the same right to spend money to influence elections that citizens possess?

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Stevens' Clerks Believe He Will Retire Next Spring

Newsweek | Howard Fineman | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics

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Less than two weeks ago, Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens made news in a typically elliptical court way. He announced that he had hired only on...

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Poisonous Atmosphere Keeping Obama From Appointing Judges

The New Yorker | Jeffrey Toobin | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics

The Obama Administration wanted to send a message with the President's first nomination to a federal court. "There was a real conscious decision to us...

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McCain Calls Out Chief Justice Roberts Over Campaign Finance Case

True Slant | Kate Klonick | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Russ Feingold, John McCain, John Roberts, Antonin Scalia, Sonia Sotomayor, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Politics News

Yesterday marked the first case in front of newly-minted Justice Sonia Sotomayor, and the Court spared no controversy. The case, Citizens United v. F...

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Court signals it may loosen campaign spending

AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court signaled Wednesday it may let businesses and unions spend freely to help their favored candidates in time for nex...

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Sotomayor Takes Her Place On High Court Bench

AP | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Justice Sonia Sotomayor has taken her seat at the Supreme Court in front of a packed courtroom that included President Barack Obama...

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Sotomayor Expected To Favor Campaign Finance Restrictions In Upcoming Case

Washington Independent | Daphne Eviatar | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Campaign Finance Reform, Sonia Sotomayor, Hillary the Movie, David Souter, Samuel Alito, John Roberts, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Politics News

The upcoming re-argument of the case of Citizens United v. FEC, challenging corporate contributions to the financing of Hillary: The Movie, is raising...

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Defending "Wise Latina"

Bloggingheads.tv | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

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Dayo argues, as a Latina, Sotomayor has more life experience and knowledge of America than John Roberts -- experience that goes beyond "White People Land."

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Forget Being "Borked," She's Been "Sotomayored"

Karl Frisch | Posted 08.20.2009 | Media

It's clear the conservative press has little interest in ascertaining the veracity of right-wing smears against Sotomayor before advancing them.

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Can the Supreme Court Be Pure Again? (Was It Ever?)

Deepak Chopra | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

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The justices' supposed detachment from the dirty business of politics was exposed as sham during the 2000 election. If Sotomayor were the partisan zealot portrayed by her opponents, she'd fit right in.

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Sonia Sotomayor and the Real Meaning of Republican Talking Points

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

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Asserting that a judge's background and experience influence their decision is not unlike asserting that the Pacific Ocean is wet.

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Can Baseball Survive the Supreme Court Confirmation Process?

Nan Aron | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics

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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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Whitehouse: Roberts Court Already Activist

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics

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For the most part, Monday's hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor avoided political debate. But when it came time for Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) to ...

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Let the Hearing Begin

Nan Aron | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics

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Next week will do more than allow Americans to learn more about Judge Sonia Sotomayor, it will also present an opportunity to examine the legal agenda of the hard-right.

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Demolition Specialists: The Supreme Court's 2008/2009 Term

Nan Aron | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics

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In Ricci v. DeStefano, the five conservatives on the Supreme Court struck a blow against this nation's most effective weapon for eliminating discrimination from our workplaces.

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John Roberts Critiqued Michael Jackson As Reagan Lawyer

AP | Posted 07.27.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Presidents named Reagan, Bush and Clinton applauded Michael Jackson in his lifetime. John Roberts, now the nation's chief justice, ...

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Sotomayor: A Negative for Affirmative Action?

Rob Fishman | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics

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The problem for affirmative action advocates is that Sotomayor's story is atypical of the stories one finds at the most prestigious universities. There's a danger of not seeing the forest for one exceptional tree.

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Attack On Sotomayor's Political Ties Ignores Roberts' Link To Bush

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics

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A new line of attack against Judge Sonia Sotomayor holds that the Supreme Court nominee lacks impartiality because she has been a public supporter of ...

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Sotomayor Confirmation: A View from Way Outside the Beltway

Sandy Maisel | Posted 07.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: John Cornyn, Samuel Alito, Obama, John Roberts, Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich, Sonia Sotomayor, Politics News

Sotomayor is probably more qualified than any recent nominee for the Court. She represents two demographic groups that are grossly underrepresented -- and she deserves confirmation.

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