Capehart: All hail Mayor Rahm
Posted in Uncategorized on February 24th, 2011 5:36 am by HL
Capehart: All hail Mayor Rahm
My reaction to Rahm Emanuel’s stunning and decisive victory over anyone else in the Chicago mayor’s race was neatly summed up by his friend and former White House colleague David Axelrod. “Two things are surreal: the nature of the victory and how fast it got counted,” Axelrod told the Chicago Sun…
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House and Senate lawmakers on Wednesday continued their criticism of Moammar Gaddafi as international pressure has mounted on the Libyan leader to end his government’s violent crackdown that has left an estimated 300 civilians dead.
Obama Administration won’t support Defense of Marriage Act
Feb. 23 (Bloomberg) — The Obama administration said it won’t defend the Defense of Marriage Act, the 1996 law that defines marriage as being between a man and a woman, in two lawsuits in federal courts in New York and Connecticut.
Professors ask Congress for an ethics code for Supreme Court
A group of more than a hundred law professors from across the country has asked Congress to extend an ethical code of conduct to the Supreme Court – for the first time – and clarify when individual justices should step away from specific legal cases.
