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...Sekulow, chief counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice, a powerful conservative group based in Washington, plans to recruit Christian activists for the fight through his daily radio talk show, his weekly TV program and a massive database of followers. He will be telling people to flood Capitol Hill with telephone calls and messages of support for the President's nominee. Barely an hour after Bush announced the O'Connor resignation, Sekulow had sent an e-mail to 850,000 sympathetic souls. "We want people to prepare for a battle," he told TIME...
...mood on Capitol Hill, where the recent battle over filibusters did nothing to improve the atmosphere, is every bit as testy. Senate majority leader Bill Frist gave a speech last week warning Democrats that the so-called nuclear option--the proposal to change Senate rules to prevent filibusters of judicial nominees--remained an option if Democrats sought to block Bush's eventual choice. The Democrats, meanwhile, were doing some early saber rattling of their own. Within hours of O'Connor's resignation, Senator Kennedy called a press conference to warn that if Bush chose a nominee who "threatens to roll...
...dignity. That man is not an innocent Iraqi being dragged around Abu Ghraib on a leash. He is suspected of being the so-called 20th hijacker on Sept. 11, 2001. If he had had his way, United Airlines Flight 93 would have plummeted into the White House or the Capitol. If your article was intended to show the U.S.'s abuse of power, you picked the wrong case study. The U.S. has demonstrated incredible restraint with that terrorist...
...public display of the Ten Commandments effectively ensures that the court will continue to grapple with the separation of church and state in the years ahead. By taking context and history into account, the court ruled that one display, 44 years old and situated outside the Texas state capitol among dozens of other sculptures and markers, passed constitutional muster, while the others, set up much more recently in two Kentucky courthouses, did not. Other issues that the court may soon address include government aid to religious schools, faith-based initiatives and attempts by religious conservatives to introduce creationist theories...
...other case involved a vintage 1961 six-foot sculpture of the commandments donated with support from Cecil B. DeMille, director of the movie "The Ten Commandments." Standing in a park on the grounds of the Texas state capitol, the work is accompanied by 17 other statues and sculptures-a primary reason why it is acceptable, the court said. In that 5-4 decision, O'Connor sided with the minority that would have disallowed the Texas monolith...