As Rahm Emanuel weighs his decision about whether to run for Chicago mayor, he may face opposition from at least one group: the immigrants rights community. “The immigrant communities do not want Rahm Emanuel to come home without immigration reform,” Joshua Hoyt, executive director, Illinois Coalition for Immigrant More…
White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is hosting a fundraiser today for Florida Rep. Kendrick Meek’s (D) Senate bid. No one has come right out and said it, but the event is clearly meant to counteract criticism that Obama has offered tepid support, at best, for Meek.
If President Obama hoped that his meeting with key senators on Tuesday would produce anything resembling a consensus on energy legislation, he came away disappointed. Democratic leaders emerged from the meeting expressing their grudging willingness to compromise further — provided some sort of emissions More…
There’s a major generation gap in the public’s concerns about the environment — one that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel hopes to capitalize on in November’s midterm elections.
“On almost every major question examined in the latest weekly Society for Human Resource Management/National Journal Congressional Connection Poll,” More…
Whether or not Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) objections to a civilian trial for Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and the other 9/11 conspirators have any merit, The Wall Street Journal thinks Graham is inching closer to securing a deal with the administration to trade putting KSM before a military commission More…
A timely reminder from FDL’s Marcy Wheeler that Rahm Emanuel lent his name to the following statement in 2007:
Since the time that captured “enemy combatants” were first brought to Guantanamo Bay in 2002, the detainment facility has undermined America’s image as the model of justice and protector
John Bresnahan’s story this morning explores the praise former Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) has been soaking up on the right — accolades from Rush Limbaugh, a spot today on Glenn Beck’s Fox News show. And as Bresnahan hints, the plaudits are coming from right-wing entertainers and media stars More…
Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.), the disgraced resigning congressman, is going down swinging and taking the news cycle with him. His weekly radio show — and, likely, any media he does today — is a festival of criticism of the White House, specifically of Rahm Emanuel.
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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is trying to convince the White House that the only way to win congressional Republican support for closing the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay — or at least provide political cover to nervous Democrats — is to try Khalid Shaikh Mohammed in a military commission. More…
The Washington Post is pretty sure that Obama’s advisers are congealing around abandoning Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in civilian court. Apparently President Obama has yet to make a decision. If he goes back to the military commissions for KSM and the other 9/11 conspirators — military charges More…
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