Author: joan reports

    Cross-posted at   dailykos A file of nominee John Roberts can no longer be found anywhere at the Reagan Library, following its inspection this summer by 2 lawyers from the WH and the Department of Justice....

      [This is cross-posted at dailykos]      As reported last May by NY Newsday and AP, links below On September 11, a couple of hours after the planes struck the Trade Center, six air traffic...

                        [ Cross-posted also at dailykos] I’m betting that Miguel Estrada, Bush’s early choice for the DC Circuit, who was filibustered in...

On the nuclear<<no, strike that!>>   On the so-called “Constitutional” option : BLITZER: If the Democrats, Senator Lugar, were to go ahead and use that filibuster rule to try to set back the Bolton...

    Money makes the world go round   –>>  What do you think?     Spencer Abraham  [ the Senator from Michigan before Deb Stabenow]  used his ‘blue-slip privilege’...