WASHINGTON — Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan picked up more GOP backing Wednesday in her drive toward near-certain confirmation next week, even as a top Republican lashed out at her as “dangerous.”
Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the senior Republican on the Judiciary Committee, warned senators in unusually dire terms against voting for President Barack Obama’s choice, saying, “Be careful about it, because I’m afraid that we have a dangerous, progressive, political-type nominee.”
Sessions’ words of caution — he said they were primarily directed toward Democrats — came just hours after Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine became the fourth Republican to say she would break with her party to vote for Kagan, who’s in line to succeed retired Justice John Paul Stevens. Continue reading “Key Republican calls Kagan a ‘dangerous’ nominee” »
With a majority in the U.S. Senate, Elena Kagan appears to be headed to a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court despite her overt liberal bent.
U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, R-Okla., voted against her nomination in the Senate Judiciary Committee.
“By her own words, Elena Kagan will violate her oath as soon as she’s sworn in,” Coburn said. “Kagan believes wrongly-decided Supreme Court precedents trump the original intent of our founders. With Kagan on the Court, Congress and the executive branch may succeed at sweeping away whatever limitations remain on its power to micromanage the decisions of states and individuals.” Continue reading “Coburn opposed to Kagan nomination to court” »
A Chandler police officer and two criminal suspects were killed in a shootout when an undercover operation went awry in south Phoenix on Wednesday evening.
Two other officers and two suspects were wounded. Both surviving officers were listed in stable condition Thursday morning. One underwent emergency surgery Wednesday night.
Two suspects were fatally shot at the scene, and six suspects have been detained in the wake of the incident, police said. One suspect suffered a minor gunshot wound. Police have not released the names of the suspects, who were booked by 2 a.m. Thursday.
Phoenix police spokesman Sgt. Steve Martos said Chandler police were engaged in an undercover operation involving about a dozen officers, including members of the department’s SWAT team, when shooting erupted inside a home in the 2300 block of West Maldonado Road.
The Western Coconino County Tea Party held a question and answer session for the candidates running for District #3 Justice of the Peace. The space was provided compliments of the Jesus Name Life Camp south of Williams.
There will be a fund raising dinner Saturday from 6-9 pm at the American Legion Cordova Post #13, 425 West Grant Avenue in Williams. The Hispanic entree will cost $7 per person. You can contact the American Legion at (928) 635-4447 for more information.
PHOENIX—A federal judge dealt a serious rebuke to Arizona’s immigration law on Wednesday when she put most of the crackdown on hold just hours before it was to take effect.
The ruling by U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton sets up a lengthy legal battle as Arizona fights to enact the nation’s toughest-in-the-nation immigration law. Republican Gov. Jan Brewer said the state likely appeal the ruling and seek to get the judge’s order overturned.
But for now, opponents of the law have prevailed: The provisions that angered opponents will not take effect, including sections that required officers to check a person’s immigration status while enforcing other laws.
The judge also delayed parts of the law that required immigrants to carry their papers at all times, and made it illegal for undocumented workers to solicit employment in public places — a move aimed at day laborers. In addition, the judge blocked officers from making warrantless arrests of suspected illegal immigrants.
“Requiring Arizona law enforcement officials and agencies to determine the immigration status of every person who is arrested burdens lawfully-present aliens because their liberty will be restricted while their status is checked,” Bolton, a Clinton appointee, said in her decision.
(CNN) — The federal judge presiding over the Obama administration’s lawsuit against Arizona has blocked a key provision of the state’s new immigration law. But that is unlikely to change the public’s mind.
After three months of bitter, unrelenting debate, polls show 60 percent of voters are strongly in favor of the law. Proponents of immigration reform, including the president, have largely ignored this support for the law, writing it off as anti-immigrant, if not downright bigoted.
But the truth is there can be no hope of passing an immigration overhaul opposed by 60 percent of the public. And perhaps instead of fighting the majority and questioning its motives, we ought to try listening to its concerns. Maybe, just maybe, that could point the way to the compromise we need on immigration.
Almost every major pollster has asked Americans about Arizona’s SB 1070, which requires police to determine the immigration status of people they stop if they also suspect those people are in the U.S. illegally — the provision blocked by the judge.
According to the latest Rasmussen Reports poll, 47% of democrats are still having trouble deciding between their four choices of Senator. Rodney Glassman holds a slight lead over Cathy Eden 15% to 11%. Parraz follows with 10% with John Dougherty ending the circus at 7%.
The debate held by PBS last night probably did not help sway their decision. Again, the question of which of them supported the socialist health care plan was carefully avoided which shows what a poison topic it still is for democrats. Continue reading “Dems duke it out!” »
At least Ben Bernanke isn’t the only person in government who doesn’t really understand our monetary system. Over the weekend Tim Geithner paraded himself all over the weekend talk shows while he proved that he barely deserved to pass econ 101. That’s right, the Secretary of the US Treasury doesn’t get it.
The interviews mostly began with Mr. Geithner distancing himself from the entire cause of this crisis. Although he was effectively the fox in the hen house (he was President of the NY Fed while we experienced the grossest bank expansion/leveraging experiment in the history of the world) Mr. Geithner continues to make it sound as if he was saddled with this problem and played no role in its cause:
Sanctuary City is a site that lists cities offering sanctuary to illegal immigrants. The problem is, they, apparently, do not have time to maintain the site. So they are offering it for sale.
The site has several conservative links and advertisers. They are looking for someone to make an offer. The sale is for the domain names sanctuarycities.info, sanctuarycities.biz, and sanctuarycities.net.
WASHINGTON — Embattled Democratic Rep. Charles Rangel was meeting with the head of the House ethics committee and other top Democrats amid rumors he may try to work out a deal rather than face a full vetting of the charges he is now facing.
A settlement would mean Rangel must admit he committed some ethical misconduct.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said Tuesday that “everyone would like for the Rangle issue to go away” and that the ethics process with Rangel is not a pleasant one.
Today is a day set aside to honor veterans of the Korean War. It does not receive much ado as other days, such as Veterans Day. So it may be difficult to understand just how to thank a Veteran that served in this war.
The Candidates for Williams Justice of the Peace will meet Wednesday at 6:30 at the Jesus Name Camp south of Williams. The Western Coconino Tea Party are bringing the candidates together. The Candidates all seem more interested in attending the meetings the closer it comes to the election. The election will be decided in the August primary for the $90K+ job since all candidates call themselves Republicans. The camp is at 2333 Perkinsville Road. To get there from Williams, get on Fourth Street and travel south past the Santa Fe Dam until you see the sign.
Feds Gave ‘Energy Assistance’ Money to Dead People
The Government Accounting Office has uncovered massive fraud in a federal program designed to help low-income Americans pay for heating and air conditioning — including payments to 725 imprisoned convicts.
The Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program serves 8.3 million U.S. households. But the GAO found that the program paid $116 million to applicants who used 11,000 dead people’s Social Security numbers, as well as to the convicts and to 1,100 well-paid government workers who were not eligible for benefits. Continue reading “Feds Gave ‘Energy Assistance’ Money to Dead People” »
The United States has condemned as “irresponsible” the leak of 90,000 military records, saying publication could threaten national security.
The documents released by the Wikileaks website include details of killings of Afghan civilians unreported until now.
Three news organisations had advance access to the records, which also show Nato concerns that Pakistan and Iran are helping the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Pakistan has denied claims its intelligence agency backed the group.
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