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Assuming nothing surfaces in Sotomayor's background that causes controversy, expect her to be seated when the court opens for its new term in October, after thorough confirmation hearings that will seem more like a lovefest than a legal firing squad. By both design and luck, Obama faces a Supreme Court-pick process that has been drained of the tension and combat that has characterized such moments in the past several decades. (Read "Four Enduring Myths About Supreme Court Nominees...
...brief remarks to the court, Carney, the defendant’s attorney, sought to humanize his client, detailing his personal aspirations and his family background...
...Bank of America and Citigroup are not alone in needing to make changes. At Wells Fargo, only four of that bank's 17 independent board members have a background in the financial-services industry. And even among that group, only two have been executives at a bank. Fifth Third Bancorp, which was deemed to need an additional $1.1 billion in capital in the government's recent stress test, has no independent directors on its board with prior experience working at a bank. Two of its board members do have financial-services experience, but with insurance companies. At JPMorgan Chase, none...
...m.p.g. - roughly 30% more fuel-efficiency than they get today. "The ramp up will be a different path than California's, but it's a national program, so you'll get emissions reductions at a rate higher than California," says a senior White House official, who provided a background briefing on the condition of anonymity...
...Sure enough, CIA charts of who was briefed and when started surfacing. Topping the list? Pelosi, then the top Democrat on the intelligence committee the CIA says was briefed in September 2002 "on EITs including use of EITs on Abu Zubaydah, background on authorities, and a description of the particular EITs that had been employed." Zubaydah, a deputy to Osama bin Laden, was waterboarded 83 times in August 2002, according to Justice Department documents. Pelosi says she was never informed that the tactics described to her that day were employed - just that they were under consideration. "We were told specifically...