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Mayoral hopeful Anthony Weiner made his first appearance on Thursday since declaring his candidacy, apologizing again for his bizarre, Internet-only infidelity scandal that forced him out of Congress nearly two years ago. “There may be people who will never vote for me, and I respect that,” Weiner told the phalanx of reporters who surrounded him [...]
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Anthony Weiner courts NYC voters: ‘It’s a second-chance city, man!’
Posted by admin on May 23rd, 2013
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No Comments »Holder: Civilian courts best to try terror cases
Posted by admin on May 11th, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder says those who argue that civilian courts are incapable of handling terrorism cases “are simply wrong.” Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post
Analysis: In force-feeding detainees, Obama has courts on his side
Posted by admin on April 26th, 2013
By David Ingram and Jane Sutton WASHINGTON/MIAMI (Reuters) – As detainees at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, press ahead with a widening hunger strike nearly three months old, President Barack Obama has come under increasing criticism for his policy of force-feeding them. But U.S. law is on his side, an analysis of [...]
Gay Marriage Defines Court’s Week
Posted by admin on March 26th, 2013
“Less than four years ago, some gay-rights activists thought it would be a mistake to wage a Supreme Court battle over gay marriage. This week, the issue comes to the nine justices for nearly three hours of argument, and gay-marriage proponents are confident of at least a partial victory,” the Wall Street Journal reports. Tweet [...]
Supreme Court’s Sidekick Kid Justice Killed By Mad Genius Dr. Contempto
Posted by admin on March 22nd, 2013
WASHINGTON—The United States Supreme Court was rocked by tragedy Thursday when the judicial branch’s longtime sidekick, Kid Justice, was brutally murdered by the nefarious Dr. The Onion Tweet This Post
Posted in Breaking News Tags: Contempto, Courts, genius, Justice, Killed, Sidekick, Supreme No Comments »Filibusters Hurting Federal Courts
Posted by admin on March 12th, 2013
Jeffrey Toobin: “Judicial appointments represent one of the great missed opportunities of the Obama Presidency. In his first term, especially in the first two years, Obama himself bore much of the blame for this. When Democrats controlled sixty Senate seats, Obama was slow to nominate lower-court judges, and his moment of greatest leverage passed. But, [...]
Cosmopolitan Kerry courts Europe, his old stomping ground
Posted by admin on March 1st, 2013
ROME (Reuters) – On his first foreign trip as Secretary of State, John Kerry charmed Europeans with his flair for languages, his wry reminiscences about biking through East Berlin as 12-year-old boy and his obvious affection for France and its cuisine. What was less clear was how much influence Washington's top diplomat will have on [...]
NRA targets judicial nominees to keep federal courts in gun-friendly hands
Posted by admin on January 10th, 2013
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Posted in Breaking News Tags: Courts, federal, gunfriendly, Hands, judicial, keep, Nominees, Targets No Comments »Hobby Lobby to defy courts over contraceptive ruling and impose religious views on workers
Posted by admin on December 29th, 2012
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Posted in Breaking News Tags: Contraceptive, Courts, Defy, hobby, impose, Lobby, Over, Religious, ruling, views, Workers No Comments »Analysis: The next stop for Palestinians could be global courts
Posted by admin on November 30th, 2012
(Reuters) – The U.N. General Assembly's overwhelming vote to recognize Palestine as a non-member state offers little prospect for greater clout in world politics but it could make a difference in the international courts. The formal recognition of statehood, even without full U.N. membership, could be enough for the Palestinians to achieve membership at the [...]
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