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Would Women Support Newt Gingrich for President?
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyIt's November 2012 and voters have a choice between President Barack Obama and former Speaker Newt Gingrich. Given the gulf between their personal lives, what's a social conservative to do? More to the point, what would moderate and independent women do? Stop, you say, Gingrich may not run for the Republican nomination and even if he does, chances are he won't win it. But Gingrich says he'll decide by the end of the month whether to set up an "exploratory committee" to raise money. The recent performances by a parade of prospects at the Conservative Political Action Conference make clear both ...
Rachel Uchitel, Elena Kagan, and Our Double Standard about Sex as Savvy Career Move
By Sarah Wildman - Politics DailyHas it always been this way? For some reason, the career advancement of a serious, intellectual woman -- Elena Kagan, just for instance -- can be jeopardized over mere rumors about a very private life she prefers for whatever reason to keep private. Yet for gals like Michelle McGee or Rachel Uchitel, dicey sexual behavior is a sure-fire career enhancer. Yes, broadcast a sex tape or publish naughty stripper photos and you're on your way; thus are gals who've done nothing more than be blessed with tight abdominals and a proclivity for shaking what God (or a surgeon) gave 'em celebrated with ...
Positive Marks for Kagan Nomination Not as High as Sotomayor's, Poll Finds
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyForty percent of Americans rate President Obama's choice of Solictor General Elena Kagan to be his Supreme Court nominee as good or excellent, 22 percent say it is "only fair" and 14 percent call it poor, according to an "immediate-reaction" poll conducted May 10 by Gallup. Twenty-four percent were undecided. That's not as positive an initial reaction to Sonia Sotomayor, Obama's first nominee, whose selection was seen as good or excellent by 47 percent, only fair by 29 percent and poor by 13 percent. It's markedly below the 51 percent percent who regarded former President Bush's choice of ...
In a Harvard E-Mail, White Privilege on Full Display
By Mary C. Curtis - Politics DailyI've heard the words, or ones like it, for a long time. Sometimes they are couched in qualifiers, sometimes accompanied with "I'm only kidding" nervous laughter. Sometimes no words are necessary, as intent is conveyed in a sideways glance or eye roll. Stephanie Grace just came right out and said them, then wrote them in an e-mail. The Princeton graduate and Harvard law school student, educated within an inch of her life, revealed she had not learned very much when she wrote: "I absolutely do not rule out the possibility that African-Americans are, on average, genetically predisposed to be ...
After Stevens, Who Will Lead Court Liberals?
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (April 5) -- Who will be the next liberal leader of the U.S. Supreme Court? As Justice John Paul Stevens strongly hinted in interviews this week that he would step down soon after more than 34 years on the high court, the question is more than merely rhetorical. Stevens turns 90 on April 20. While he could go for the record as the nation's longest-serving Supreme Court justice, he has hired only one clerk for next term instead of the usual four, a telltale sign he is considering hanging up his black robe for good. Charles Dharapak, AP Justice John Paul Stevens hinted this week ...
Court Fight Looms With Talk of Stevens' Departure
By Tamara Lytle - AOL News(March 17) -- President Barack Obama and Chief Justice John Roberts have been sniping at each other like in-laws with an ax to grind. And now they're potentially on the verge of a major family occasion fraught with tension. Justice John Paul Stevens turns 90 next month and is expected to announce soon whether he will retire from the Supreme Court and kick off a nomination battle for his replacement. Stevens hired only one law clerk for next fall's term instead of the usual complement of four, setting off speculation he will step down. Stevens is the leader of the closely divided court's left ...
Speculation Begins to Build About an Obama Court
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Feb. 5) – With so much else going on, there's been little time during the first year of the Obama administration to ask a perennial question of presidential politics: What's likely to happen to the Supreme Court? ABC News weighed in Thursday with speculation that two liberal Supreme Court justices – John Paul Stevens and Ruth Bader Ginsburg – could step down during Obama's first term. Stevens, 89, didn't hire a full team of clerks for the spring. He also told reporters, "This can't be news. I'm not a kid." And Ginsburg, 76, has undergone surgery for pancreatic cancer. ...
What R U Wearing? A Black Robe: Texting and the Supreme Court
By Kase Wickman - Politics DailyThings I've consulted my 232 Twitter followers about: a) What to have for lunch b) Where to find my misplaced driver's license c) How to make recently consumed hot peppers feel less hot The only reason that not one of my 1,919 tweets involves being summoned for jury duty or actively deciding on a criminal trial is because, well, I've never been summoned for jury duty. (Probably a lucky thing for all involved, but that's beside the point.) The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case about techno-privacy, and will eventually decide whether employees have the right to privacy on texts sent and ...
The Top 15 Winners and Losers of 2009
By Carl M. Cannon - Politics DailyWINNERS LOSERS 1. Barack Obama: Inaugurated as the first African- American president in U.S. history, he inherited two wars, the Great Recession, a Democratic Congress with a pent-up agenda, a liberal base with a litany of unrealistic demands, and a hostile Republican Party – and managed to keep his head above water and his famous cool. 1. Nobel Prize Committee: With friends like the geniuses in Oslo, Obama needs no enemies. Awarding the Peace Prize to Obama before he'd learned where the White House cafeteria is located (not to mention committed 35,000 more ...
Political Winners and Losers of 2009
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyMichelle Obama, Hillary Clinton and Sonia Sotomayor topped the list of who Americans thought were "political winners" this year while the prize for the biggest losers went to White House gate-crashers Tareq and Michaele Salahi, according to a Gallup poll conducted Dec. 11-13. ...
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