Law professor Goodwin Liu may be test case for Obama judicial picks
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on March 22nd, 2010 4:42 am by HL
Law professor Goodwin Liu may be test case for Obama judicial picks
Liberal legal activists came away from last summer’s confirmation hearings on Sonia Sotomayor with an empty feeling. It’s not so much that they had a beef with Sotomayor, whom they supported. But her pragmatic discourses on judging and her vague remarks on constitutional interpretation were far from the soaring progressive vision of the Constitution that they had waited for years to hear from a Democratic nominee.
Senate has some work left on health-care bill
Leaving a meeting of House Democrats, Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (Nev.) walked off quietly Saturday afternoon with a few aides but was stopped in his tracks by an unfamiliar face.
In creating consumer financial regulatory agency, there are no guarantees
In the debate over how to structure a new regulatory agency to protect consumers of financial products, history offers a lesson:
Republicans rally Tea Party activists to oppose the health-care legislation
Congressional Republicans rallied Tea Party activists to oppose the health-care legislation on the verge of being approved by Congress even as party leaders began to look beyond Sunday’s vote to campaigning against the reform in the fall elections.