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Embryonic Stem Cell Ban: Does It Matter?
By David Gibson - Politics DailyMonday's injunction by a federal appeals court judge against taxpayer funding of embryonic stem cell research prompted reactions of glee and alarm of the kind always associated with this divisive topic -- though with those emotions amplified by the intensity of this election season. Pro-life groups saw the preliminary stay against federal funding, issued Monday by U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth, as a rare and welcome victory, and many conservatives hailed the ruling as a defeat for President Obama -- even though Lamberth's decision against Obama's 2009 guidelines allowing limited ...
Republicans Win Delay of Elena Kagan Confirmation Vote
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyRepublicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee have won a one-week delay of a vote on Elena Kagan's nomination to the Supreme Court, citing the need to review reams of documents related to Kagan's work in the Clinton administration, as well as written answers to questions from six committee Republicans, which she submitted only Friday. The move is one of the few procedural maneuvers Republicans have to slow Kagan's confirmation process, which has moved smoothly thus far. Although the committee's chairman, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), has the authority to schedule the panel's votes, the minority ...
Sens. Orrin Hatch, Mitch McConnell to Vote Against Elena Kagan Supreme Court Nomination
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyU.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) became the first to announce that he will vote against confirming Solicitor General Elena Kagan to become the next justice on the Supreme Court, and minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said later Friday that he too would oppose her. Hatch, a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, said Friday morning that Kagan's lack of judicial experience and practical legal experience combined to disqualify her from sitting on the high court. Although he called her a "good person" and "brilliant scholar," Hatch said that Kagan failed to overcome his impression ...
John McCain, Other GOP Senators Slam Calderon Immigration Remarks
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailySen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and several other Republican senators Thursday criticized remarks by Mexican President Filipe Calderon, who told a joint session of Congress that the recently passed Arizona immigration law amounts to racial profiling and called on lawmakers to pass comprehensive immigration reform. McCain, who led the doomed immigration reform effort in 2006 but is now calling for National Guard troops to help police the U.S. Mexico border, called Calderon's comments on his state's immigration law "unfortunate and disappointing." The law makes it a crime in Arizona to be without ...
Elena Kagan's Senate Rounds: Day 2 Includes Seven More Stops
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyEight senators down, 92 to go. That's the count as of Thursday morning for the arduous and sometimes awkward road that Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan must travel as she meets with the 100 U.S. senators who hold her professional fate in their hands. On Wednesday, the current solicitor general sat down with the most senior members of the Senate -- five Democrats and three Republicans -- for meetings that ranged from an hour-long murder board with Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) to a relatively casual meet-and-greet with Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.). Kagan continues her march on the Hill ...
Justice Hillary Clinton? Orrin Hatch Says Maybe
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailySen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, appeared on NBC's "Today" show Monday to discuss the Supreme Court vacancy created by retiring Justice John Paul Stevens, but set off a torrent of rumors that President Obama might choose Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as Stevens' successor. After declining to give his opinion on some of the rumored contenders for the seat, including Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Hatch threw out another well-known name as a possible Stevens replacement. "I even heard the name Hillary Clinton today," he said. ...
The Gridiron Dinner: Schmoozing Newsies
By Annie Groer - Politics DailyAt Saturday night's 125th annual Gridiron Dinner -- meaning the first one took place two centuries ago in 1885 -- there were three speakers: An ex-president, who seemed thrilled to be back in Washington doing stand-in, stand-up comedy, and a Republican and a Democratic senator who were just a wee bit raunchy. Bill Clinton, who spoke best and last, arrived late because he'd spent part of Saturday on the phone lobbying wavering Democrats on health care. "So tell the truth guys, do you miss me?" he asked more than 600 media heavies, politicians, consultants, business leaders and diplomats ...
Pssst, Orrin Hatch: There Already Are Bureaucrats Between Us and Our Doctors
By Bob Franken - Politics DailyThere are many reasons that so many people admire Utah Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch, whatever their political persuasion. One is that he is intellectually honest -- you can't call him a demagogue. Although it was tempting yesterday. It is fair to say that, during a Fox News interview Tuesday, he slipped into some demagoguery when he was so consumed by partisan zeal that he uttered one of those oft-repeated simple-minded comments that so intentionally distort the health care debate. We hear it all the time from those who want to beat back any reform supported by President Obama. You ready? ...
Two More Nos for Sotomayor
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyTwo more senators, John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), said Friday they'll vote to oppose Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court. Both Cornyn and Hatch sit on the Senate Judiciary Committee, where each quizzed the judge last week on her views of abortion and the Second Amendment, and on her past statement that she would hope a "wise Latina" would make better judgments than a white man.In his speech on the Senate floor, Cornyn said Friday that although Sotomayor had performed well during the nomination hearings, she had expressed "very radical ideas" about the role of a ...
StarCaps Ruling a Win for NFL, Loss for Drug Cheats
By Dan Graziano - AOL NewsThis is a good thing, this ruling that came down Saturday in the StarCaps case. You may not see it that way if you're a fan of the Minnesota Vikings, who now face the first four games of their season without their Pro Bowl defensive tackles. Or if your team is the New Orleans Saints, who've likely lost their starting defensive ends for those first four games.But if you're the kind of person who thinks pro athletes (and, by extension, the children who admire them) should be discouraged from taking drugs to cheat at their games, you have to look at today's development as a positive.There are all ...
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