High Court May Wade Into Election Year Politics
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on July 12th, 2011 4:31 am by HL
High Court May Wade Into Election Year Politics
Albert Hunt, Bloomberg
A familiar pattern of pastpresidential elections is that early in the cycle both partiesgin up their base with warnings about dire consequences if theother side controls the next Supreme Court selections; after afew well-timed speeches and fundraising appeals the matter isusually ignored by the electorate.Next year could be different by becoming the first timesince 1968 that the Supreme Court is a central issue in theAmerican national elections.
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Peter Beinart, The Daily Beast
Storyline No. 1: Republicans are desperate to balance America's books. This is, to be sure, what Republicans say. But is there any reason to take them at face value? During the Bush years, after all, the GOP was anything but desperate to put America’s fiscal house in order. The Bush administration launched wars that increased the deficit, pushed tax cuts that increased the deficit, even pushed entitlement expansions—such as the prescription-drug benefit—that increased the deficit.
Iran’s Nuclear Threat is Escalating
William Hague, The Guardian
On 8 June, the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation, Fereydoun Abbasi Davani, announced plans to triple Iran's capacity to produce 20% enriched uranium, transferring enrichment from Natanz to the Fordo plant. Inside Iran this announcement by a discredited regime drew little comment and was quickly overshadowed by the domestic political theatre of the latest high-profile tussles between Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. But it was an important statement because it makes even clearer the fact that Iran's programme is not designed for purely…
