Oct 07 Kentucky Dispatch: How Do You Know It’s Election Season? Turn On the TV Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway talks to Senate candidate Rand Paul and Sen. Mitch McConnell at the 130th annual Fancy Farm picnic in Fancy Farm, Ky. Photo by Gage Skidmore; Flickr Creative Commons LOUISVILLE, Ky. | Election Day is… Continue reading
Oct 07 Upcoming: Ways To Deal With the Foreclosure Crisis The past week’s revelations of bank insouciance with regard to the legal niceties of foreclosure and eviction, most notably the robo-signers who admitted they did not read what they signed off on, have led to a national push… Continue reading
Oct 07 Gov. Crist, Rep. Meek Team Up on Rubio in Florida Senate Debate By David Chalian Senate candidates Marco Rubio, Gov. Charlie Crist and Rep. Kendrick Meek shake hands before their debate. Photo by Joe Burbank-Pool/Getty Images. If you weren't sure who the front-runner is in the Florida Senate race, Wednesday night's televised debate cleared that… Continue reading
Oct 07 Watch Justice Breyer: ‘Now, I’m Probably More in Dissent’ Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer talks to Jeffrey Brown about his new book, "Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge's View," the role and responsibilities of the high court, and the shift in dynamics that a new justice can bring. Continue watching
Oct 06 Inside The Supreme Court: Marcia Coyle on Military Funeral Protests By Elizabeth Summers Attorney Margie Phelps argues for the respondents in Snyder v. Phelps. Courtroom sketch courtesy William Hennessy Marcia Coyle of the National Law Journal was inside the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday to hear arguments in a much anticipated case… Continue reading
Oct 06 Report: Government Underestimated, Underreported Oil Spill Size By Lea Winerman According to the National Oil Spill Commission investigating the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf, the White House blocked efforts by federal scientists to tell the public the worst-case estimates of the leak in late April or early May. That… Continue reading
Oct 06 2010: The Year of the Vanishing Candidate: Now You See Them, Now You Don’t This year, mostly you don't. Once upon a time, not so long ago, candidates in competitive races sought out the news media to help get their messages across to the voters, and they scheduled frequent public events so they could… Continue reading
Oct 06 Michelle Obama Makes the 2010 Soft Sell to Democrats: Don’t Stay Home First lady Michelle Obama told listeners Wednesday on a conference call aimed at getting out the Democratic vote in November to remind voters that "change is difficult and we are just beginning to see the results of our work." The… Continue reading
Oct 06 Supreme Court to Hear Arguments Over Funeral Protests By David Chalian A member of Westboro Baptist Church protests at a veterans' hospital in Virginia. File photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images. The PBS NewsHour's Mike Melia previews Wednesday's high-profile First Amendment case before the Supreme Court: On the steps of the Supreme… Continue reading
Oct 06 Watch Supreme Court Justices ‘Felt the Emotion’ of Military Funeral Protest Case Supreme Court justices are considering a battle of First Amendment rights vs. individual privacy after members of a controversial church protested at the funeral of a U.S. Marine. Marcia Coyle of the National Law Journal describes Wednesday's hearing and considers… Continue watching