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Nevertheless, he is considered to be conservative enough for Bush. As Deputy Solicitor General, he wrote an oft-quoted brief on behalf of the administration that said that “we continue to believe that Roe was wrongly decided and should be overruled...
...Texas Supreme Court, he wrote an opinion that not only opened the way for a 17-year-old to have an abortion but also raised concerns generally about parental-notification laws. And he appears wobbly on affirmative action. Published accounts have suggested he toned down a Justice Department brief opposing racial preferences when the Bush Administration filed it in the landmark 2003 case involving affirmative action at the University of Michigan Law School. "There are a lot of pro-family, pro-life groups that would probably be quite unhappy if he were the pick," says Jan LaRue, chief counsel...
...Jimmy Buffett, Jay-Z and Avril Lavigne signed a brief supporting the record companies, while Heart, Brian Eno and Terence Trent D'Arby joined forces to support Grokster. It was a lineup that ensured no matter how the court ruled, the music at the victory party would suck." --JON STEWART...
...production is down, as are revenues from oil exports; the mile-long lines at gas stations are back after subsiding a few months ago. Many Baghdad neighborhoods have had little or no water supply for several weeks. It's small wonder that Harith was so grateful for the brief temperature drop: his neighborhood routinely gets less than four hours of electricity...
...Baghdad, you learn to savor small pleasures. When the weather turned unexpectedly cool one recent evening after a long sequence of 113°-plus days, people emptied out of their houses, braving the ever present threat of violence in order to enjoy a brief reprieve from the heat. As I stood in the front yard of TIME's Baghdad bureau, feeling the welcome breeze against my face, I asked my Iraqi colleague Harith if a sharp drop in temperature was common for the month of June. He shook his head. "This is a gift from our God," he said. "He knows...