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Hagan announces recs for federal positions

Lots of familiar names on the list of Kay Hagan’s recommendations for federal appointments for NC including Jim Phillips and Hampton Dellinger. Here’s the release: [...]
July 10, 2009 | Posted in: Courts, NCSenate | Tags: , | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Checkpoint monitoring and racial profiling

More on the racial profiling issue via this post from the Southern Coalition for Social Justice on BlueNC. Over the past week the Southern Coalition [...]
July 7, 2009 | Posted in: Constitution, Courts, Current Events, Immigration | Tags: , , , | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Our stellar discourse

Our highly ethical, well run media takes a serious look at Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. In case you’re interested: Actual research. Is Mrs. Alito [...]
May 30, 2009 | Posted in: Courts, Current Events | Tags: , | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

What is the pH of empathy?

This Supreme Court debate is tiresome and annoying already because it’s not going to be about the law. No, it’s going to be about big [...]
May 9, 2009 | Posted in: Administration, Constitution, Courts | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

SCOTUS prediction

The next Supreme Court justice will be named after a very public debate by people who have no idea what their talking about ‘interviewing’ people [...]
May 7, 2009 | Posted in: Constitution, Courts, Current Events | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Leave the constitution aloooone!

The state constitution that is. A new Elon Poll says half of the people polled don’t think we need about a proposed constitutional amendment to [...]
March 23, 2009 | Posted in: Constitution | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Article II, in case you don’t know it by heart

From the wonderful folks who brought you Article I (nice Cornell annotations page here), a look at the basic job description and duties of the [...]
October 26, 2008 | Posted in: 2008 Elections, Constitution | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Beason

The Insider is reporting that prosecutors say the mystery donor who loaned Jim Black $500,000 was Don Beason. From the site, a partial list of [...]
July 31, 2007 | Posted in: Courts, Current Events | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink