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Published: 12/17/10

C-SPAN Supreme Court Series: United States v. Nixon

By  Andrew Cohen - Politics Daily
C-SPAN Supreme Court Series: United States v. Nixon

This is the 10th and final column in a Politics Daily series complementing C-SPAN's broadcasts this fall of audiotape recordings of some of the most famous and important Supreme Court oral arguments of the past 50 years. The broadcasts afford most Americans their first opportunity to hear the actual words spoken by the justices and the lawyers before them in arguments that shaped the laws that have shaped our lives in countless ways. The last tape in the series focuses on the epic United States v. Nixon, a case that effectively ended a presidency in 1974. It will be heard on C-SPAN Radio at 6 ...

Published: 07/7/08

McCain's Convention Nightmare

By  David Knowles - Politics Daily
McCain's Convention Nightmare

Are you ready for some political football? The date? September 1. The place? St. Paul, Minnesota. The teams? John McCain versus everybody else. As The Washington Post reports today, anticipation is running high for the showdown between Republican conservatives and their presumptive party leader. At issue is the G.O.P. platform, which, at present, is a 100-page-long decree that mentions George W. Bush's name at every scintillating, right-wing turn of phrase:Virtually the entire platform will have to be rewritten to lessen the imprint of the president, who has the highest disapproval rating of ...

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