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...rights and crumble the wall of separation between church and state. The party that mustered Congressional majorities for posting the Ten Commandments and holding mandatory prayer in schools but failed to pass sensible gun regulation after Columbine or hate-crimes laws after Matthew Shepard's murder is itching to appoint the next few Supreme Court justices...
...professor at CUNY and supervising attorney of its elder-law clinic. "If they have wills, they should review them; if they don't have wills, they should probably consult an attorney. People can sign advanced health-care directives, such as health-care proxies or living wills, which let you appoint an agent to make decisions for you if you're unable...
...formidable events would unfold. On Jan. 3, Ashcroft's Senate term would expire. Missouri law would require the seat to be declared "vacant," since the victor in the election would be dead. The state's interim Governor, Roger Wilson, who took office last week upon Carnahan's death, would appoint an interim Senator, who would stand for re-election in two years. On Jan. 8, a new Governor will be sworn in as well, but it's still Wilson who would make the appointment, according to the Missouri secretary of state's office. Since Wilson would undoubtedly pick a fellow...
About the only way the late Carnahan can beat a living Ashcroft is if Wilson announces in advance whom he intends to appoint should Ashcroft lose. The problem for Wilson, and the Democrats, is that the choices are few. The state's leading member of Congress, House minority leader Richard Gephardt, doesn't want the job. Attorney General Jay Nixon and former Senator Thomas Eagleton probably can't beat Ashcroft. The only Democrat with a shot at doing that would be Carnahan's widow Jean. But since she also lost a son, Roger, in the crash (an aide...
...appear to be doing the same. Initial indications are that Ibrahim Rugova's Democratic League of Kosovo won an impressive victory in the first elections held in the territory since NATO expelled the Yugoslavian army. Although the vote, which was boycotted by the territory's Serb minority, was to appoint representatives to local authorities, they represented the first opportunity for Kosovo's Albanians to state their political preferences since the war. And Rugova's victory appears to have been a stunning setback for Hashem Thaci and other former leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army, who had long disparaged Rugova...