Leading Conservative Activist Seeks Punitive Damages Judge Robert Bork, one of the fathers of the modern judicial conservative movement whose nomination to the Supreme Court was rejected by the Senate, is seeking $1,000,000 in compensatory damages, plus punitive damages, after he slipped and fell at the Yale Club of New York City. Judge Bork was […]
Bush’s full comment: QUESTION: Mr. President, I want to take you back to domestic issues again. You say the no-confidence vote [pending in the Senate today] has no bearing as to whether Alberto Gonzales remains as Attorney General. How can he continue to be effective? And it seems like you’re not listening to Congress when […]
Specter says he’ll vote against Gonzales "They can have their votes of no-confidence but it’s not going to make the determination about who serves in my government," Bush said today. "This process has been drug out a long time. … It’s political." "… about who serves in my government" is at the center of things. […]
The American Enterprise Institute The Project for the New American Century The Federalist Society The National Republican Lawyers Association The Heritage Foundation The Hudson Institute The Manhattan Institute The idea of having a collective of bright people thinking together is an old one – the University, the College, a Legislature, etc. It’s the lynch-pin of […]
Report: U.S. Attorney Buchanan to meet with House Judiciary investigators THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 06/06/2007 09:30:44 AM EDT U.S. Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan of Pittsburgh will meet privately Thursday with House Judiciary Committee investigators looking into the Justice Department’s firing of eight federal prosecutors last year, her attorney told a newspaper. Buchanan’s attorney, Roscoe C. Howard […]
Justice Official May Revise Voter-Fraud Testimony, People Say A Justice Department lawyer under fire for bringing criminal voter-fraud charges on the eve of the 2006 election may revise his Senate testimony about the case, which angered other U.S. prosecutors, officials familiar with the matter said. Bradley Schlozman, who as U.S. attorney in Kansas City obtained […]
Schumer: Gonzales no-confidence vote Monday Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), who has led the investigation into the firing of several U.S. attorneys, announced Friday that a vote of no confidence in Attorney General Alberto Gonzales will be taken in the Senate Monday. “If all senators who have actually lost confidence in Attorney General Gonzales voted their […]
Chaos Theory brings the dimension of non-linearity to mathematics [and gives us beautiful images to ponder]. Essentially, the theory posits that there is order in chaos, that chaos occurs at the edge of different types of order. So the cool ocean and the warm atmosphere interact to produce beautiful clouds and turbulent weather. The edge […]
Bush’s long history of tilting Justice The administration began skewing federal law enforcement before the current U.S. attorney scandal, says a former Department of Justice lawyer By Joseph D. Rich … JOSEPH D. RICH was chief of the voting section in the Justice Department’s civil right division from 1999 to 2005. He now works for […]