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30 May 2024, 1:06 pm by Howard Bashman
The post “Alito Benefits from Colleague’s 50-Year Friendship; Judge Edward Becker secures Arlen Specter’s support” appeared first on How Appealing. [read post]
5 Apr 2024, 2:56 am by SHG
After reviewing this evidence, Judge Arlene Johnson of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals concluded that Brenda Andrew had been sentenced to die based on “evidence that has no purpose other than to hammer home that Brenda Andrew is a bad wife, a bad mother, and a bad woman. [read post]
4 Jan 2024, 1:02 pm by Howard Bashman
Arlen Specter Stumbles into Dream Role as Judiciary Committee Chairman; And vows no litmus test on Roe v. [read post]
4 May 2022, 7:29 am by jonathanturley
Arlen Specter (R., Pa.), asked him if he agreed with that statement today and Alito responded in classic confirmation nonspeak. [read post]
12 Apr 2022, 2:20 pm by David Super
     Past pivotal moderate Republican senators included John Chafee (RI), Lincoln Chafee (RI), William Cohen (ME), John Danforth (MO), Dave Durenberger (MN), Mark Hatfield (OR), John Heinz (PA), Jim Jeffords (VT), Olympia Snowe (ME), and Arlen Specter (PA). [read post]
28 May 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Biden Justice Department Fights Release of Legal Memo on Prosecuting Trump Politico – Josh Gerstein | Published: 5/24/2021 The Department of Justice released more of a key memorandum concluding former President Trump did not commit obstruction of justice through his alleged attempts to thwart federal investigations, including special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into ties between his 2016 campaign and Russia. [read post]
29 Apr 2021, 8:26 am by Kristian Soltes
Arlen Specter, who once chaired the Judiciary Committee, schooled him in interchange, or ‘swipe,’ fees imposed by the credit card networks. [read post]
3 Feb 2021, 2:29 pm by Tom Smith
These would be valid targets for joint FBI-CIA attention, and probably anger too.Four hundred pages later, the reader finds that Brennan’s list contains none of these but it is long, and he exhausts his thesaurus of abusive language against them: Arlen Specter, Richard Grenell, Devin Nunes, Lindsey Graham, Donald Rumsfeld, Michael Pompeo, Trey Gowdy, Michael Scheuer, and Gina Haspel (on and off; she didn’t invite him to CIA holiday parties), and the CIA’s… [read post]
20 Oct 2020, 8:22 am by Marcia Coyle
The late Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter was first to use the term as well as the term "super-duper precedent" during the 2005 confirmation hearings for then Supreme Court nominee John Roberts Jr. [read post]
11 Oct 2020, 6:30 am by Sandy Levinson
For the Balkinization Symposium on  Alexander Keyssar, Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? [read post]
27 Apr 2020, 7:52 am by Edith Roberts
For example, during a 2011 Senate hearing on a precursor to the Cameras in the Courtroom Act, the late Senator Arlen Specter argued that “the legitimacy of the Court itself is at stake for the people to understand what the Court does,” particularly in high-profile cases involving “issues [that] … ought to be subject to really close public scrutiny. [read post]
7 Feb 2019, 2:00 am by CAFE
  Various references made in the episode: Reid’s book, The Good Fight: Hard Lessons from Searchlight to Washington The nail-biting 2006 night when the Democrats took the Senate Former Senator Daniel Inouye’s funeral Reid’s description of Trump as amoral and the spike in dictionary searches for ‘amoral’ Intelligence chiefs' testimony before the Senate on 2/6/19  Bill Moyer’s program comparing President Carter to President Reagan Speaker Pelosi… [read post]
14 Sep 2018, 9:32 am by Anthony Gaughan
In a 1995 book review, an up-and-coming University of Chicago law professor criticized Supreme Court nomination hearings as a “vapid and hollow charade. [read post]
5 Sep 2018, 12:48 pm by Adam Feldman
Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania presided over Alito’s hearing. [read post]
29 Nov 2017, 9:02 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
(Reading about those events also brings back to mind how truly awful Senator Arlen Specter [read post]
1 Jun 2017, 10:31 am by Tom Smith
One name circulating in the media is lobbyist David Urban, who once served as Chief of Staff to Arlen Specter. [read post]