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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!Presidents often use a single word to describe the state of our union, and whatever the circumstances, they usually default to "strong." That is always true in a fundamental sense, given our size, our ideals, our resilience and our incomparable military. But it's never complete. This year, if he were honest, President Obama might describe the state of the union as unsettled. The traumatic Tucson massacre has raised painful questions about how we as a nation regulate guns, handle mental illness and conduct our civic conversation. We continue to endure historically high unemployment and ...
Judy Clarke is the Forrest Gump of criminal defense attorneys. Otherwise unassuming, even shy, she seems to turn up, front and center, for many of the cases we'll never forget. She counseled Ted Kaczynski 13 years ago this month when the Unabomber was toying with the government in advance of his guilty plea. She helped an unrepentant Eric Robert Rudolph, the Olympic Park bomber, avoid a death sentence. She was present and accountable during the chaotic trial of Susan Smith, the South Carolina mother who drowned her two small children in a car in a lake. She even represented Zacarias ...
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