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U.S. President Barack Obama welcomed Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen to the annual St. Patrick's Day Reception at the White House Wednesday. Vice President Joe Biden addressed the audience, saying "if you are lucky enough to be Irish you are lucky enough." Obama presented Cowen with the traditional gift of a bowl of shamrocks and Cowen reciprocated. ]]>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 1:02:00http://t.love.com/310111660Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:49:00http://t.love.com/310028164Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:55:00http://t.love.com/309275015Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:07:00http://t.love.com/309116746
Throughout our nation's history, the president's pardon power has been used with generosity and regularity, to correct systemic injustices and to advance the executive's policy goals. Since 1980, however, presidential pardoning has fallen on hard times, its benign purposes frustrated by politicians' fear of making a mistake, and subverted by unfairness in the way pardons are granted. The diminished role of clemency is unfortunate, since federal law makes almost no provision for shortening a prison term an]]>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:04:00http://t.love.com/308956624Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:40:00http://t.love.com/308803713Sun, 14 Mar 2010 5:03:00http://t.love.com/308348800Fri, 12 Mar 2010 9:47:00http://t.love.com/307623422
The president and his aides aren't the only Democrats throwing unusually sharp and public jabs at the conservative members of the Supreme Court. On Wednesday Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said he was "so disappointed" with the Court's swing vote -- Justice Anthony M. Kennedy -- for enabling the court's rightward, corporatist tilt. As for Chief Justice John Roberts, the majority leader castigated him as being out of touch and completely detached from political reality. ]]>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:04:00http://t.love.com/307522657
The Supreme Court recently freed corporations to spend more money on aggressive election ads. But if businesses take advantage of this new freedom, the public probably won't know it, because it's easy for them to legally hide their political spending. Under current disclosure laws for federal elections, it's virtually impossible for the public to track how much a business spends, what it's spending on, or who ultimately benefits. ]]>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 9:30:00http://t.love.com/307427166Wed, 10 Mar 2010 4:00:00http://t.love.com/307345155Tue, 9 Mar 2010 21:46:00http://t.love.com/307341918Tue, 9 Mar 2010 21:30:00http://t.love.com/306981064Tue, 9 Mar 2010 0:54:00http://t.love.com/306287000Sat, 6 Mar 2010 12:44:50http://t.love.com/306149471Fri, 5 Mar 2010 21:29:00http://t.love.com/306085836Fri, 5 Mar 2010 16:52:00http://t.love.com/305802642Fri, 5 Mar 2010 0:28:00http://t.love.com/305754305Thu, 4 Mar 2010 20:16:00http://t.love.com/305373291Wed, 3 Mar 2010 22:50:00http://t.love.com/305253241Wed, 3 Mar 2010 15:26:00http://t.love.com/304960377Tue, 2 Mar 2010 23:24:00http://t.love.com/304881489Tue, 2 Mar 2010 17:26:00http://t.love.com/304867452Tue, 2 Mar 2010 16:46:00http://t.love.com/304853766Tue, 2 Mar 2010 16:10:00http://t.love.com/304840805Tue, 2 Mar 2010 15:21:00http://t.love.com/304818563Tue, 2 Mar 2010 14:13:00http://t.love.com/304807511
Most of the Supreme Court justices who two years ago said the 2nd Amendment protects individual gun rights signaled during arguments Tuesday they are ready to extend this right nationwide and to use it to strike down some state and local gun regulations. Since 1982, Chicago has outlawed hand guns in the city, even for law-abiding residents who sought to keep one at home. That ordinance was challenged by several city residents who said it violated their rights "to keep and bear arms" under the Second Ame]]>Tue, 2 Mar 2010 13:42:00http://t.love.com/304780225Tue, 2 Mar 2010 12:19:00http://t.love.com/303790115Sat, 27 Feb 2010 0:31:00http://t.love.com/303393382Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:29:00http://t.love.com/303294663Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:28:00http://t.love.com/303252027
The Supreme Court heard argument earlier this week in Humanitarian Law Project v. Holder , an extremely im portant First Amendment case involving the criminal prohibition on so-called "material support" to designated terrorist organizations. Although plaintiffs' attorney Professor David Cole did a superb job of focusing the Court's attention on how the law prohibits pure political speech, lurking not far in the background was the law's effect on humanitarian assistance. ]]>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:28:00http://t.love.com/303215936
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy pointed out that giving tsunami money to the Tamil Tigers, terrorists of Sri Lanka, might spare them funds they then would spend on terrorism. Solicitor General Elena Kagan backed up that example with another, the Hamas builds both houses and bombs. Justice Sonia Sotomayor stated that such an interpretation would forbid teaching terrorists to play the harmonic (Jess Bravin, Wall St. J., 2/24, A3). ]]>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:52:00http://t.love.com/303056481Thu, 25 Feb 2010 5:04:43http://t.love.com/302969036
The case stems from a challenge to an antiterrorism act by American advocates who say they want to support only the peaceful efforts of groups that the State Department has deemed to be terrorist organizations. "This is a difficult case for me," allowed Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, whose vote often is the one that decides closely divided cases. Georgetown law professor David D. Cole, who represents the Humanitarian Law Project, said his clients do not want to provide material support to the groups, but]]>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:10:00http://t.love.com/302963762Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:37:00