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Arlen Specter: Congress is a profile in cowardice
Washington traditionally boasts about its' profiles in courage. Today, facing arguably the greatest potential financial crisis in American history, politics trumps economics as officials focus on the next election instead of the public interest.
The...Tags: University of Pennsylvania, Mitch McConnell, Tea Party Movement, Barack Obama, Newt Gingrich
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Testimony before Senate panel calls for more oversight of crime stats, broader definition of rape
— In Cleveland, women's claims that a sex offender had assaulted them were ignored, until police found the bodies of 11 women at the man's home. In Milwaukee, a woman tried to report being raped but was told at three different police stations to...Tags: Justice System, Assault, Lawyers, Minority Groups, Manhattan (New York City)
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U.S. Senate committee to hold hearing on rape investigations
Concerned that police departments nationwide fail to fully investigate rapes, a congressional committee will examine the issue next week at a hearing spurred partly by a Baltimore Sun examination of the systemic underreporting of sex crimes. The Senate...Tags: Justice System, Prosecution, Benjamin L. Cardin, Assault, Prostitution
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Roberts promises to keep an 'open mind'
Sun National StaffWASHINGTON - President Bush's nominee for chief justice, Judge John G. Roberts Jr., said yesterday that Supreme Court justices have a "limited role" - to apply the law, not make it. On the first day of Senate hearings on his nomination, Roberts pledged...Tags: Justice System, Disasters, Heads of State, Elections, Fred Thompson
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Filibuster on Roberts looks unlikely
Sun National StaffWASHINGTON - The Supreme Court nomination of Judge John G. Roberts Jr. appears unlikely to be blocked by the delaying tactics of a Democratic filibuster, members of a key group of senators said yesterday. Roberts was the topic of conversation when the...Tags: Justice System, Mike DeWine, Bill Frist, Heads of State, Elections
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White House defends Miers' qualifications
WASHINGTON // President Bush's chief spokesman insisted yesterday that Supreme Court nominee Harriet E. Miers has ample experience in constitutional issues to sit on the nation's highest bench, rebutting critics who question her legal expertise. But...Tags: Justice System, Heads of State, Constitutional Issues, Republican Party, Scott McClellan
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Passage urged for shield law
Los Angeles TimesWASHINGTON - Advocates for a proposed federal shield law that would keep journalists from having to disclose confidential sources told the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday that the lack of such protection is impinging on the public's right to...Tags: Justice System, Constitutional Issues, Laws, Lawyers, Los Angeles Times
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Roberts: Roe 'settled as precedent'
Sun National StaffWASHINGTON - During a long and sometimes contentious day of questioning, Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. called the landmark 1973 abortion rights case "settled as a precedent of the court." But he stopped short yesterday of pledging to...Tags: Justice System, Elections, Lawyers, Local Government, Death
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Anti-Roberts TV ad is withdrawn
Associated PressWASHINGTON - After a week of protests by conservatives, an abortion-rights group said last night that it is withdrawing a television advertisement linking Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. to violent anti-abortion activists. "We regret that...Tags: Justice System, Abortion, CNN (tv network), Television Industry, Television Stations
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Roberts takes first steps toward confirmation
Sun National StaffWASHINGTON - Judge John G. Roberts Jr. will take the first formal step toward his expected confirmation as the next chief justice of the United States when he goes before the Senate Judiciary Committee at noon today. The opening session of Roberts'...Tags: Judges, NBC (tv network), Justice System, Republican Party, Elections
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One sentence in Constitution could be key to Roberts' role
Sun National StaffWASHINGTON - Amid intense scrutiny into the judicial record of Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr., perhaps nothing seems as curious as the hubbub surrounding his brief remarks two years ago about a striped toad in California. The judge's four-...Tags: Conservation, San Diego County (California), Environmental Politics, Justice System, Nature
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