By: Carrie Budoff, The Politico
Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) plans to review the Senate testimony of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel A. Alito to determine if their reversal of several long-standing opinions conflicts with promises they made to senators to win confirmation.
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Specter, who championed their confirmation, said Tuesday he will personally re-examine the testimony to see if their actions in court match what they told the Senate. “There are things he has said, and I want to see how well he has complied with it,” Specter said, singling out Roberts.
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Our next wave of Do-It-Yourself Impeachments are due. This time we’re sending them to Republican Representative and Presidential Candidate Ron Paul. He’s spoken in favor of impeachment. Here’s a clip of his most recent comments about impeachment. While he shies away from calling for it directly, he does speak in favor of impeachment investigations. If…
Ithaca Times — Last Tuesday, a group of local activists held a friendly demonstration of gratitude outside of Congressman Maurice Hinchey’s (D-NY, 22) office at Cayuga and Green Streets, thanking Hinchey for being the seventh representative to sign on to and co-sponsor Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich’s impeachment bill. “Our main focus was to thank Hinchey,”…
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Democrats.com House Sends Impeachment to John Conyers by Bob Fertik By a bipartisan vote of 251-166, the full House of Representatives sent Dennis Kucinich’s 35 Articles of Impeachment to the Judiciary Committee. That means Chairman John Conyers now has the power to decide whether to hold impeachment hearings – or not. Incredibly, 24 Republicans voted…
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By Al Gore, The Guardian UK The pursuit of “dominance” in foreign policy led the Bush administration to ignore the UN, to do serious damage to our most important alliances, to violate international law, and to cultivate the hatred and contempt of many in the rest of the world. The seductive appeal of exercising unconstrained…
