Spanish-language news reporters who spoke Sunday on Al Punto, a Univision program, said the coming Supreme Court decision on Arizona’s immigration enforcement law S.B. 1070 will have an impact on both the 2012 elections and on the lives of millions of immigrants.
Tonight’s State of the Union address will likely be full of many showy “bipartisan” moments. President Obama will likely make a number of statements about reaching across the aisle, and many Republicans and Democrats in Congress will sit with a member of the other party to break up the traditional More…
After a sleepy confirmation process drowned out by debates over financial regulation, unemployment insurance, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the Senate this afternoon confirmed Elena Kagan as the next Supreme Court justice, by a vote of 63 to 37.
[Law1] Five Senate More…
Obama defends “coked-up stimulus monkeys.”
Henry Waxman won’t mind if the “difficult” Dems lose reelection.
Next Michelle Obama will be telling us to eat cake.
Conservatives argue Prop 8 ruling shouldn’t count because the judge is gay.
With House passage of broad oil spill response legislation late Friday, all eyes are on the Senate this week as Democrats fight to find the votes necessary to pass oil spill and energy legislation.
But, as I’ve noted here before, prospects don’t look good.
Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) announced today that he will vote against Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan when she comes up for a vote by the full Senate the week of Aug. 2.
Alexander is the 21st Republican senator to publicly oppose Kagan, so it’s not a surprise in that respect. More…
The Senate Judiciary Committee just voted 13-6 to endorse Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan’s confirmation, sending her on to the full Senate for further consideration.
The vote broke largely on partisan lines — all 12 Democrats on the committee voted for Kagan while six of the seven Republicans voted against More…
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) just announced during the Senate Judiciary Committee’s televised executive session that he will vote for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan’s confirmation, becoming the only Republican so far either on the Senate Judiciary Committee or in the Senate at large to break party ranks.
Graham said that More…
Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) tepidly endorsed Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan in an op-ed released late yesterday, noting that she did “just enough to win my vote.”
Specter damned Kagan with faint praise in the USA Today op-ed, saying that while he believes she has “an impressive legal More…
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