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Today's Fresh Blogs...| McConnell To Force Consideration Of Southwick |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 1:06 pm |
| Tags: Judiciary |
| A source on Capitol Hill tells me that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell plans to force consideration of Judge Leslie Southwick's nomination to the appellate court in the next few minutes. Stay tuned! UPDATE: It looks like the debate on... |
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| Southwick Nomination Reported To Full Senate |
| Published: August 2, 2007, 7:22 pm |
| Tags: Judiciary |
| The Senate Judiciary Committee finally voted to recommend confirmation of Judge Leslie Southwick to the appellate court this afternoon, on a 10-9 vote where Dianne Feinstein crossed the party line. Mitch McConnell's office sent out the following statement: With today's... |
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| NYT's Linda Greenhouse Bans Cameras from Public Appearance |
| Published: August 10, 2007, 1:00 pm |
| Tags: Judiciary, Linda Greenhouse, New York Times |
| Notoriously left-wing New York Times court reporter Linda Greenhouse, famous for her 2006 rant against Republicans, "religious fundamentalism," and illegal immigration opponents has apparently learned from her mistake.No, she hasn't decided that someone with such fervently liberal positions needs a conservative counterpart on the beat. |
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| Idiot sues McDonald’s because he didn’t know how to check his hamburger for cheese |
| Published: August 10, 2007, 7:12 pm |
| Tags: Law Judiciary, Clueless Wonders |
| Unreal (emphasis added): A Morgantown man, his mother and his friend are suing McDonald’s for $10 million. The man says he bit into a hamburger and had a severe allergic reaction to the cheese melted on it. Jeromy Jackson, who is in his early 20s, says he clearly ordered two Quarter Pounders without cheese at the McDonald’s restaurant |
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| Haditha: Murder charges dropped for another Marine (MORE: CHARGES AGAINST *THIRD* MARINE DISMISSED) |
| Published: August 9, 2007, 2:30 pm |
| Tags: War On Terror, Law Judiciary, Military |
| Thanks to ST reader Sev for the tip. Via AFP: Murder charges against a US Marine accused of killing three Iraqi civilians during an alleged massacre in Haditha two years ago have been dropped, the military said on Thursday. A statement released by the Marines at their Camp Pendleton base in southern California revealed that three charges of |
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| Don Imus violated the Rutgers womens basketball teams’ ‘civil rights’ |
| Published: August 14, 2007, 7:31 pm |
| Tags: Law Judiciary, Race Issues, Clueless Wonders |
| … so sayeth a lawsuit filed by the lawyer of one of the ‘defamed’ players: Don Imus is facing his first lawsuit from a player on the Rutgers Women’s Basketball team for derogatory comments that cost him his job as a radio host in April, ABC News has learned. Kia Vaughn, star center for the Rutgers Women’s Basketball |
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| Why is Mary Winkler free? |
| Published: August 15, 2007, 9:38 am |
| Tags: Law Judiciary, Outrageous, Crime, Other Us Courts |
| Is this an example of justice served? I think not: (CNN) — After spending a total of seven months in custody, the Tennessee woman who fatally shot her preacher husband in the back was released on Tuesday, her lawyer told CNN. Mary Winkler, a 33-year-old mother of three girls, was freed from a Tennessee mental health facility where she was |
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| Jose Padilla: GUILTY |
| Published: August 16, 2007, 2:52 pm |
| Tags: War On Terror, Law Judiciary, Breaking News Stories, Other Us Courts |
| Via the AP: MIAMI - Jose Padilla was convicted of federal terrorism support charges Thursday after being held for 3 1/2 years as an enemy combatant in a case that came to symbolize the Bush administration’s zeal to stop homegrown terror. Padilla, a U.S. citizen, was once accused of being part of an al-Qaida plot to detonate a radioactive |
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| White House Subpoena Watch |
| Published: August 20, 2007, 12:25 pm |
| Tags: George W Bush, Patrick Leahy, Fred Fielding, Warrantless Wiretaps, Subpoena, Senate Judiciary Committee |
| program to the Senate Judiciary Committee. The documents were originally subpoened on June 27th and were to be turned over to the committee on July 18th. After a request from the White House the deadline was extended until today, and now White House Counsel Fred Fielding is saying that the gathering of the documents is, "by no |
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| Breaking: Vick to plead guilty |
| Published: August 20, 2007, 2:41 pm |
| Tags: Sports, Law Judiciary, Breaking News Stories, Crime |
| All his friends were turning against him, so it looks like he realizes he’s run out of options: The lead attorney for pro football star Michael Vick said Monday that the Atlanta Falcons quarterback will plead guilty to dogfighting and related charges and will “accept full responsibility for his actions and the mistakes he has |
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| Dem Congressman charged with assault and battery at Dulles |
| Published: August 20, 2007, 7:20 pm |
| Tags: Media Watch, Law Judiciary, Breaking News Stories, Congress, Crime |
| But you wouldn’t have known it was California Dem Congressman Bob Filner in some of the early reporting on the story, which Mark Finkelstein discusses here. As ST reader sanity noted in the comments of the most recent open thread, had this guy been a Republican, it would have been one of the first things you read about him. Here are the |
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| Bad news for military-hating mediots and far lefties alike |
| Published: August 24, 2007, 9:16 am |
| Tags: War On Terror, Law Judiciary, Military, Iraq, Middle East |
| Investigating officer Lt. Col. Paul J. Ware has recommended dropping all charges against yet another Marine in the Haditha case: An investigating officer has recommended that a Marine Corps general drop all charges against a Marine accused of murdering civilians in Haditha, Iraq, finding again that the 2005 shootings were “tragedies” |
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| Let’s talk about Michael Vick |
| Published: August 24, 2007, 2:26 pm |
| Tags: Sports, Law Judiciary, Crime |
| As we learn today about Michael Vick’s plea agreement, in which he pleads guilty to one count of “Conspiracy to Travel in Interstate Commerce in Aid of Unlawful Activities and to Sponsor a Dog in an Animal Fighting Venture,” yet didn’t admit to killing any dogs or gambling, I wanted to bring up a column by Jason Whitlock, |
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| Craig Schweitzer, Son Of Former Montana Freeman Leader Leroy Schweitzer, Embroiled In Dispute With FAA And Neighbors In Kenai, Alaska |
| Published: August 12, 2007, 9:48 pm |
| Tags: Aviation, Judiciary |
| Like Father, Like Son?Alaska has proven to be attractive to a wide variety of unconventional and free-spirited figures. This includes former Michigan Militia leader Norm Olson, who moved up here in July 2005. Olson has not reportedly engaged in any militia activity since relocating here.And now, another militia-related Alaskan is in the news. |
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| 10 people witness rape, no one calls to report it: A case of multiculturalism gone bad in America? |
| Published: August 24, 2007, 8:12 pm |
| Tags: Social Issues, Law Judiciary, Outrageous, Cultural Issues, Crime, Immigration, Multiculturalism |
| Like many people have the last couple of days, I read the story of what happened in a hallway in the Afton View apartments in St. Paul, Minnesota with an unhealthy dose of disgust: Although police say as many as 10 people witnessed a sexual assault in a St. Paul hallway, the suspect said he has no memory of what happened. Rage Ibrahim, 25, said |
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