Word: counsels
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...Interestingly, Saddam, whose official biography says he has a law degree from Cairo University, probably made a mistake by entering an "innocent" plea on Wednesday. By doing so, says Badie Izzat, defense counsel for former Iraqi deputy prime minster Tariq Aziz, Saddam tacitly accepted the court's legitimacy. If his strategy is to deny that legitimacy, better for Saddam to have said nothing...
...runs a vast swath of the West Wing--to fight aggressively "any bull___ charges," says a source close to Rove, like allegations that he was part of a broad conspiracy to discredit Plame's husband Joseph Wilson. Rove's defense: whatever he did fell far short of that. Special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald appears to be seriously weighing a perjury charge for Rove's failure to tell grand jurors that he talked to TIME correspondent Matthew Cooper about Plame, according to a person close to Rove. Rove corrected himself in a later grand jury session. If charged with perjury, he will...
...White House counsel begins her formal prep sessions this week for a confirmation hearing that's likely to start in early November, President Bush will hold a photo op with former chief justices of the Texas Supreme Court who will testify to Miers' qualifications and legal mind. The White House's 20-person "confirmation team" will line up news conferences, opinion pieces and letters to the editor by professors and former colleagues who can talk about Miers' experience dealing with such real-world issues as the Voting Rights Act when she was a Dallas city council member and Native American...
...call any law that substantially raises a state or local minimum wage a “living wage” law.) Advocates of living wage campaigns have made two claims to get people to focus on their issue. First, as Paul Sonn, a living wage activist and associate counsel with the Brennan Center for Justice, puts it, living wage activists have “economics on their side.” This seems to be true. In Santa Fe, business leaders and their in-house economists argued that a living wage would boost unemployment. They were wrong. The job growth...
...Miers "will be a good justice." With the Right on a rampage over what some saw as a betrayal, Dobson spoke of "things that I'm privy to that I can't describe because of confidentiality." Had Dobson received an assurance from Rove that Miers, now the White House counsel, would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade? Democrats suspected so, and said they would call Dobson as a witness at her confirmation hearing, which is likely to begin late this month or in early November...