Author: BooMan

SCOTUS: Anti-Bush T-Shirts Okay

You gotta love this seventh grader: Putting its recent ruling on student speech into practice, the Supreme Court on Friday rejected a school district’s appeal of a ruling that it violated a student’s rights by...

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Democratic Strategy

The Democrats passed the Iraq War Supplemental funding bill, but is that the end of the story until September? Not exactly. There are still a few battles to fight this summer. Bob Geiger reports on a Pelosi conference call last...

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We Start 6,000,000 Votes In the Hole

According to figures from the U.S. Elections Assistance Commission, we’re going to go into the 2008 election roughly 5-6 million votes behind the Republicans. As detailed in Greg Palast’s Armed Madhouse, 5,220,576...

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The Supreme Court

I haven’t written anything about this year’s Supreme Court decisions not because I don’t care about them but because I’m not a lawyer and I feel totally unqualified to offer any really insightful...

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Executive Privilege

Here’s a question. The President has the absolute right to nominate anyone he wants to be an US Attorney. He also has the absolute right to fire an US Attorney. Like granting clemency and pardons, this is an exclusive...

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