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Alberto Gonzales: Sotomayor 'powerful'
The Swampby Mark Silva Add Alberto Gonzales, attorney general under President George W. Bush and the first Hispanic attorney general of the United States, to the lineup praising the cultural significance of Judge Sonia Sotomayor's nomination for the Supreme Court....Tags: Social Issues, Local Government, Defendants, National Government, Justice System
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Sotomayor: Fast-track vs. Slow-walk
The Swampby Mark Silva and updated. The White House is seeking swift Senate confirmation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Barack Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court, as Republican congressional leaders suggest they may be in no rush. While critics challenge...Tags: Local Government, National Government, Justice System, Upper House, George H.W. Bush
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Patrick Leahy: Sotomayor's day is here
The Swampby Mark Silva Sen. Patrick Leahy, now chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, once warned that Latino candidates for the federal courts were being held up by a Republican-run Senate. In particular: Judge Sonia Sotomayor, a federal judge first...Tags: New York, Local Government, Patrick Leahy, Vermont, National Government
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Sotomayor: Hispanic 'legitimacy'
The Swampby Mark Silva and updated President Barack Obama, elected to the White House with two-thirds of the votes cast by Hispanic Americans, has made some history of his own -- first African-American elected president -- and now has nominated the......Tags: Social Issues, Puerto Rico, Local Government, National Government, National or Ethnic Minorities
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Sotomayor: 'Piece of cake,' she's told
The Swampby Mark Silva President Barack Obama already knew one of the finalists for the Supreme Court whom he was considering: federal Judge Diane Wood of Chicago, a fellow teacher of constitutional law at the University of Chicago. But the president......Tags: Newspapers, Local Government, New York University, Joe Biden, Columbia University
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Obama's Vegas chips: Harry Reid, all in
The Swampby Mark Silva With just 35-percent support back home in Nevada, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid might have a reelection problem. If he only had an opponent. Hoping to keep the opposition at bay and avert the home-state implosion that......Tags: Harry Reid, Jim Gibbons, Regional Authority, Tom Daschle, National Government
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Obama's new top-court nominee: Reaction begins
Spin CyclePresident Barack Obama's selection of Sonia Sotomayor for the U.S. Supreme Court has two predictable consequences: Celebration of the first Hispanic appointment -- she's Puerto Rican from the Bronx -- mingled with "conservative" admonishments that she's...Tags: Sonia Sotomayor, Barack Obama, Fires, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Disasters and Accidents
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Obama: Cybersecurity 21st Cen. threat
The Swampby Mark Silva Calling the protection of government and private information and communications networks "one of the most serious... security challenges of the 21st Century,'' President Barack Obama plans to appoint a new advisor to oversee a national...Tags: Crimes, FBI, Consumer Electronics Industry, Local Government, Defense
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Wind goes out of hurricane forecast
Maryland WeatherA cooling of surface waters in the tropical Atlantic and the likelihood of a weak El Nino developing in the Pacific this summer have taken more wind out of the hurricane forecasts for the 2009 season, which began Monday.Phil Klotzbach......Tags: Meteorological Disasters, Tropical Storm Hanna (2008), Florida, Disasters, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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GM Bankruptcy: What it Means to You
KickingTiresAfter filing for bankruptcy this morning, GM's future is a bit hazy. However, the company is stressing that the day-to-day operations that impact consumers will remain unchanged. The company has set up a website to alleviate these fears here. We......Tags: Saturn, Financially Distressed Companies, Pontiac, Saab, Heads of State
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GM Plant Closures Signal Product Shift
KickingTiresNow that it???s operating under bankruptcy protection, GM has ramped up the scheduled plant closures it had previously announced. Four assembly plants will be closed this year, impacting current products. The least surprising closure is the Wilmington,...Tags: Plant Closings, Financially Distressed Companies, Plant Openings, Bankruptcy, SUVs and Crossovers
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Bush: 'Information gained saved lives'
The Swampby Mark Silva Former President George W. Bush, stepping cautiously onto the public stage a few months into retirement, maintains that lives were saved with the interrogations of suspected terrorists carried out by his administration after the terrorist...Tags: Career and Workplace, Retirement, National Government, Terrorism, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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