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...judgeships, opponents in Congress have started digging in their heels and building support. Two weeks ago, in the first such defeat for the Administration, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 10 to 8 to reject the nomination of Jefferson Sessions, 39, the U.S. Attorney in Mobile picked for a federal district court judgeship in Alabama. Witnesses said that Sessions had called the N.A.A.C.P. and several other civil rights groups ''un-American,'' and once remarked that he had thought Ku Klux Klan members were ''O.K.'' until he found out they smoked pot. Sessions protests that he was ''caricatured'' unfairly by his opponents...
...life,'' he says, ''should be the best the legal profession has to offer. Too many clearly are not.'' While the Senate prepared to consider Manion last week, the House was pondering the arduous prospect of a judicial impeachment. Convicted two years ago of income tax evasion, Nevada Federal District Judge Harry Claiborne began serving a two-year sentence last month at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama. The first sitting federal judge to be imprisoned, Claiborne, a Carter appointee, has refused to resign, continues to draw his $78,700 annual salary and could return to the bench as early...
...because he's genuine and passionate about what he says - he's not acting," says supermarket attendant Bassam Obeid in central Baghdad. "But this visit is just for election publicity, and 16 months [for U.S. combat troop withdrawal] is an exaggeration." Leila Mohammed, a housewife in Baghdad's Karrada district, also shrugged at the significance of the visit, the first Obama will make to the war zone since clinching the Democratic nomination. "There is no need for Obama to meet [Iraq's Prime Minister] Nouri al-Maliki until after he has been elected," she said...
...Barnes' confidence is based on the district's voting history, but treating this election year as typical could backfire. Nationwide political sentiment is not kind to Republicans, right now, and in Shulman Garrett faces an adversary unlike any he has previously bested. Bolstered by voter dissatisfaction and his compelling life story, Shulman had already raised more money by June 30 than the last Democratic candidate amassed over the entire 2006 campaign - and national party leaders are paying attention...
...While Garrett may be the district's traditional choice, any political professional from either party will confirm that these are unconventional times. So, the fact that Shulman is anything but a conventional candidate may yet turn the race for New Jersey's 5th District into a humdinger...