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Sen. Jon Kyl to Retire; 5 Facts on the Arizona Republican
By Torie Bosch - AOL NewsJon Kyl, the Senate minority whip, announced today that he would not seek re-election. This makes Kyl, R-Ariz., the fifth current senator to decline to run again in 2012, following similar announcements from Democrats Kent Conrad of North Dakota and Jim Webb of Virginia, Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas and independent Joe Lieberman of Connecticut. Here are five must-know facts about Kyl, who has been in the Senate since 1995 and previously served in the House of Representatives. 1. Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Senate Finance Committee Kyl serves on the two ...
Stalled Judicial Nominations Move Forward Following Agreement by Reid, McConnell
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyIn one of the first efforts at bipartisan goodwill -- or just plain cooperation -- the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday agreed to move forward 11 judicial nominations that had been languishing since the last session of Congress. Though all of the nominees were deemed "noncontroversial," the move was seen as the first step in a deal made late last month between Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), in the hope of creating a less divided, more efficient upper house. Reform-minded advocates in the Senate have been pressing for official rules ...
Year in Review: The Five Most Overblown Legal Stories
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyIn this three-part series, Politics Daily's legal analyst Andrew Cohen takes a look back at the year in the law. Part 1 focused on the year's most under-reported legal stories. Part 2 below focuses on the year's most over-reported legal stories. And Part 3 will wrap up the year-end package with a look at major legal events and issues. The Five Most Overblown Legal Stories of 2010 No. 1. The same-sex marriage judge in California is gay. We don't talk anymore in America about the integrity of female judges who decide cases involving issues of interest to women. We don't talk anymore in ...
What Would GOP Takeover of Congress Mean for Judiciary Committees?
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyMost polls suggest that Republican candidates will win enough seats in Tuesday's midterm election to take over the House of Representatives, if not the Senate, for the first time since 2007. If this occurs, all of the committee leadership positions will change over into GOP hands. If the House becomes Republican, for example, no longer will Rep. John Conyers, the iconic Democratic from Michigan, preside over the House Judiciary Committee. And if the GOP picks up a Senate majority, a longer shot if you believe the odds, no longer will Sen. Patrick Leahy, the bald patrician from Vermont, preside ...
Hill v. Thomas: Still Angry After All These Years
By Andrew Cohen - Politics Daily"You called who?" It's difficult to imagine the contours of the marital interaction that surely took place recently between Clarence Thomas, an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, and his longtime wife, Virginia Thomas, a Tea Party activist and conservative advocate. We will likely never know for sure -- communications between spouses are generally covered from public airing by evidentiary privilege. Did Mrs. Thomas tell her husband in advance of her baffling plan to reach out to Anita Hill and request an apology for the sexual harassment allegations Hill leveled against ...
Anita Hill Won't Back Down: 'I Testified Truthfully'
By Deborah Hastings - AOL News
(Oct. 20) -- This is not the first time that the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has asked for an apology from Anita Hill. And to that blast from the past, her answer remains the same: No. Not then. Not now. "I testified truthfully," she said after The New York Times reported that Virginia "Ginni" Thomas left a voice mail earlier this month on Hill's Brandeis University phone asking for an apology and an explanation "of why you did what you did with my husband." What Hill did was ignite a fury nearly 20 years ago when she testified at Thomas' confirmation hearing before the ...
Elena Kagan Shared Little in Hearings; Senators Shared All They Could
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyDuring his prime-time special a few weeks ago, it took the narcissistic basketball star Lebron James about half an hour to tell the world what it already knew. Things being as windy as they are on Capitol Hill, it took the Senate Judiciary Committee more than two hours longer to do likewise on Tuesday when the panel, as expected, endorsed the Supreme Court nomination of Elena Kagan and sent it along to the floor of the Senate. The outcome, as the sportscasters still say, was never in doubt. The nominee slipped through the committee like a ghost, casting few shadows, while all around her on the ...
Elena Kagan Approved by Senate Judiciary Committee
By not in system - AOL NewsThe Senate Judiciary Committee approved Solicitor General Elena Kagan's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday by a vote of 13 to 6. All 12 Democrats on the committee supported Kagan, as did Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). Six Republicans voted against her nomination. "There's plenty of reasons for a conservative to vote no, but there's also one very good reason for a conservative to vote yes, and that's found in the Constitution," Graham said before the vote, explaining that while he disagrees with Kagan's politics, he feels the Constitution gives the president the right to choose his ...
Opinion: Judicial Activism Has a New Face
By Ian Millhiser - AOL News(July 2) -- If you want to make a progressive tremble, yell "judicial activist" and laugh as they cower under their desk in fear. At least, that's been the pattern for the past two decades of judicial confirmation hearings. So when Elena Kagan took her seat at the beginning of her confirmation hearing, her opponents were pretty confident. Sure, the Senate's lopsided majority made defeating Kagan unlikely, but her opponents thought they would get the next-best thing: a weeklong infomercial on judicial conservatism. This time, however, the infomercial got canceled. While their more ...
Elena Kagan Confirmation: Project Beltway
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