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Who Will Replace Souter? Today’s News: Obama Interviews Judge Diane Wood

Above the Law: “Pick Your Poison: A Conservative Ranks SCOTUS Possibilities” CBS News: “Obama’s Supreme Court Pick And Conservatives’ Activist Myths” Associated Press: “Supreme Stats: 106 White Males Among 110 Justices “ Wall Street Journal (sub. req.): “Obama Begins Interviewing Potential Supreme Court Picks” Associated Press: “AP source: Obama meeting…

May 20, 2009 11:03 PM CDT

Who Will Replace Souter? Today’s News

ABAJournal.com: “Dueling YouTube Clips: Potential High Court Nominees vs. PI Lawyers “ ABAJournal.com: “Colo. Judge Says She Was Approached About Supreme Court Seat “ Caucus (New York Times): “Granholm’s in the House, Leading to Supreme Court Chatter” Detroit News: “Granholm didn’t meet privately with Obama at White House” Front Row…

May 19, 2009 9:58 PM CDT

Who Will Replace Souter? Today’s News

Washington Post: “Conservatives Take Fight Against Potential Court Nominees to the Web” New York Times: “Conservatives Map Strategies on Court Fight” New York Times: “Republicans in Senate Lower Expectations of a Court Fight” CNN Political Ticker: “Hispanic groups quietly press for Supreme Court pick” First Read (MSNBC): “SCOTUS politics: Avoiding…

May 18, 2009 9:30 PM CDT

Liberal Group Files Ethics Complaints Against Three Ex-AGs

A coalition of left-leaning advocacy groups has filed ethics complaints against three former attorneys general and nine other Bush administration lawyers for advocating the use of harsh interrogation techniques against terrorism suspects. The coalition calling itself the Velvet Revolution says the lawyers violated ethics rules by advocating methods that amounted…

May 18, 2009 6:39 PM CDT

High Court to Decide if SOX Board Is Illegal ‘Fifth Branch’ of Government

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether an oversight board created by the Sarbanes-Oxley corporate oversight law is an unconstitutional “fifth branch” of government. At issue is whether the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board violates separation of powers principles and the appointments clause, SCOTUSblog reports. The petition for…

May 18, 2009 4:13 PM CDT

High Court Rules Pakistani Held After 9-11 Can’t Sue Ex-AG on ‘Conclusory’ Claims

A cable TV installer who says his detention after the Sept. 11 attacks was motivated by racial, religious and national origin bias has failed to allege specific facts allowing him to sue the former attorney general and the ex-director of the FBI, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled. The court…

May 18, 2009 2:48 PM CDT

Schumer Aide Who Led Prosecutor Firing Probe Tapped for NY US Atty

President Obama has chosen a lawyer who led a probe into the firing of U.S. attorneys to fill the top federal prosecutor spot in Manhattan. Preet Bharara investigated the dismissals as chief counsel to Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., the New York Times reports. Bharara was an assistant U.S. attorney for…

May 18, 2009 11:24 AM CDT

Who Will Replace Souter? Today’s News

Associated Press: “White House: No interviews of court candidates yet” National Law Journal: “Judging Supreme Court Contenders by the Numbers” Wall Street Journal (sub. req.): “Sessions Favors Judge for High Court” ABAJournal.com: “Ex-Deputy AG Pushed for Supreme Court Consideration” ABAJournal.com: “Switch from Nancy Drew to Perry Mason Laid Path for…

May 15, 2009 9:48 PM CDT

CIA Rejects Request By Cheney to Declassify Two Interrogation Documents

Citing pending litigation under the Freedom of Information Act, the CIA has declined a request by Richard Cheney to declassify two documents that the former vice president contends would show that controversial interrogation methods used by the CIA after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks did elicit useful information. Critics…

May 14, 2009 8:19 PM CDT

Karl Rove to be Questioned in Probe of US Attorney Firings

A special prosecutor who is investigating accusations related to the claimed political firings of at least nine U.S. Attorneys during the Bush administration is scheduled to question former senior White House aide Karl Rove tomorrow. The Connecticut prosecutor, Nora Dannehy, was appointed in September 2008 by then-U.S. Attorney General Michael…

May 14, 2009 7:59 PM CDT

Blogger Reads Obama Signals, Decides Kagan Will Get High Court Nod

Did a newspaper story earlier this week send a signal that President Obama may not name a Hispanic to the U.S. Supreme Court when he makes his first appointment? A writer for the Washington Post’s PostPartisan blog thinks so, and uses the clue to proclaim Solicitor General Elena Kagan as…

May 14, 2009 12:11 PM CDT

Leaked High Court Shortlist Has Six or Eight Names, or Maybe More

Reports of a new administration shortlist of potential U.S. Supreme Court nominees differ on the number of names it holds. The Associated Press says there are six names on the list, while CNN says there are “about half a dozen candidates” and the Wall Street Journal says the list is…

May 14, 2009 11:53 AM CDT

Who Will Replace Souter? Today’s News: Obama Narrows Choices, Wants Empathy

CNN: “Sources: High court selection process down to finalists” Associated Press: “Possible SupCo Nominee in the Spotlight at Hearing” Atlanta Journal-Constitution: “Chief Justice Sears to join Chicago law firm” Los Angeles Times: “Americans not concerned with diversity on Supreme Court, poll shows” Washington Post: “Obama Makes Empathy a Requirement for…

May 13, 2009 10:18 PM CDT

In a Reversal, White House Will Seek to Withhold Photos of Detainee Abuse

The Obama administration has reversed course and decided it will oppose releasing photos of claimed prisoner abuses at U.S. prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan. Anonymous officials told several publications that President Obama met with his legal team last week and said he feared that U.S. troops would be endangered by…

May 13, 2009 5:32 PM CDT

FDA Warns General Mills over Cheerios Cholesterol Claims

The Food and Drug Administration has sent a letter to General Mills warning that cholesterol claims on the Cheerios box make the food a drug under federal law. The letter, posted on the FDA website, says Cheerios should file a new-drug application if it wants to continue claiming a cholesterol-lowering…

May 13, 2009 2:29 PM CDT

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