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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: Population, Lawyers, Social Issues, Executive Branch, Government
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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: Government, Upper House, National Government, Court Administration, Crime, Law and Justice
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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: Barack Obama, Vermont, Government, Upper House, New York
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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: Polls, Barack Obama, Local Elections, Social Issues, Government
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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: Lawyers, Columbia University, Ethics, National Government, Defendants
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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: Barack Obama, Sheryl Crow, Government, Executive Branch, Upper House
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Cheney's life-saving claims hard to back
The Swampby Greg Miller In the bitter debate over the nation's counterterrorism policies, former Vice President Dick Cheney has introduced an assertion that substantially raises the stakes. Twice in the past two weeks -- including a speech Thursday -- Cheney has.....Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, World War II (1939-1945), Barack Obama, Government, Weaponry
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Tribune profile: Judge Diane Wood
The SwampBy John McCormick and Jeff Coen Virtually every Wednesday evening, Diane Wood leaves one courthouse and travels a few blocks to another for a two-hour rehearsal with the Chicago Bar Association Symphony, an ensemble where she has played the oboe......Tags: Local Government, Crime, Law and Justice, Judges, Barack Obama, Government
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Obama: 'What Memorial Day is all about'
The Swampby Mark Silva This president is headed to Camp David today for the Memorial Day weekend, and, figuring that Americans are getting ready to "fire up the grill,'' offers a weekend address today that is short on political policy and......Tags: Barack Obama, Defense, Social Issues, Government, National Government
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Obama's wreaths: Afro-Amer., Confed.
The Swampby Mark Silva Today, there were wreaths to go around. Several dozen professors had called upon the first African-American president to forgo a Memorial Day tradition of laying a wreath at a monument to Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery,....Tags: Chicago, Defense, Social Issues, Government, Travel
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Obama: North Korea demands 'action'
The Swampby Mark Silva On his way to Arlington National Cemetery today, President Barack Obama paused to address the nuclear test that North Korea has carried out, to say that the international community must "stand up'' and "take action'' on North......Tags: Barack Obama, Defense, United Nations, Government, Missile Systems
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Twitter: Congressional reality show
The Swampby Mark Silva Finally, a television reality show in which members of Congress can compete. It may not sound like much of a plot: Watching people text-message one another. But then, one gets to answer the brief text-queries Webcast for......Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Missouri, Entertainment, Government, Television
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