I’m not convinced that the New York Daily News is the most reliable outlet in the country, but this anecdote, if true, is of the utmost importance right now: Some Republicans at the White House and on Capitol Hill aren’t sold that Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) has the 50 senators needed to change the […]
It must not have been easy for District Court Judge Joan Lefkow to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday, after a psychotic plaintiff killed her husband and mother last month in Chicago, but Lefkow shared an important message that deserves more attention: the anti-judiciary crusade on the right is not without consequences. U.S. District […]
The first sentence of this morning’s AP report on Janice Rogers Brown had a terribly familiar ring to it. Janice Rogers Brown, a sharecropper’s daughter who became the first black and most conservative justice on California’s Supreme Court, is a model jurist for U.S. Senate Republicans fighting judicial filibusters. Swing by Google News are you’ll […]
If there’s ever been a time to embrace widespread reform of Congress’ ethics rules, it’s now. With this in mind, I’m delighted to see House Democrats seize the opportunity. Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) and Steering and Policy Committee Chairman George Miller (Calif.) are expected to unveil their legislative proposals, some of which have already […]
Looking back over the last couple of months, I really can’t remember the last time I saw polling data that Republicans could find encouraging. Since the inauguration, if not slightly before it, public support for Republican officials and their agenda has slipped — and then slipped again. This week is no exception. The latest Harris […]
The Hill ran an interesting item this week talking about Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.) and the resume he brings to the 2008 presidential race. There was one tidbit that jumped out at me, as part of the discussion of Bayh’s two terms as a popular governor of a Republican state. [Doug Richardson, who covered Bayh […]
(Editor’s Note: The Carpetbagger Report, as regular readers know, has joined the Coalition for Darfur, a bi-partisan online initiative created to raise awareness and resources to address the crisis. This is the latest in a series of posts from the Coalition.) The genocide in Darfur began more than two years ago. Since then, more than […]
Just as the Senate takes on the question of how best to place judges on the federal bench, some in the House are considering a measure on how best to undermine them once they’re there. Two members of the U.S. House reintroduced a bill yesterday to prevent federal courts from outlawing recitation of the Pledge […]
Just to clarify a point that’s come up in a few emails I’ve received, the Senate is debating Priscilla Owen’s judicial nomination today, but the vote on the nuclear option probably won’t come until early next week. Mike Allen and Jeffrey Birnbaum had a helpful rundown in today’s Washington Post of what to expect in […]
If you haven’t already seen the Think Progress post about Bill Frist’s off-message arguments on the Senate floor this morning, it’s worth checking out. Chuck Schumer: Isn’t it correct that on March 8, 2000, my colleague [Sen. Frist] voted to uphold the filibuster of Judge Richard Paez? Frist: The president, the um, in response, uh, […]