Word: legalism
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Five members of the Kansas-based church, whose nationwide picketing activities against homosexuality have earned them a “hate group” designation from southern non-profit legal authorities, demonstrated in an area flanked by Cambridge Police, who maintained a perimeter guard during the entirety of the protest...
...both sides of the political aisle, but yesterday’s vote brought unexpected Republican opposition. Much of Kagan’s bi-partisan support evaporated in recent months after a spat with Sen. Arlen Specter over her unwillingness to answer several questions from the Pennsylvania Republican about her legal views. During debate on the Senate floor yesterday, Republican Senators criticized Kagan as a result. “I think we have to pay a little more attention, and I’ve gone to some length to try to find out more about Dean Kagan. But in the absence...
...embattled AIG CEO Edward Liddy said he'd asked employees to give half of their bonuses back, and that some had already voluntarily given all of it back. And Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, who had signed off on the contractually promised bonuses after concluding that the government had no legal recourse to prevent them from being paid, said earlier this week that he plans to take the money out of the next $30 billion tranche Treasury approved for AIG two weeks ago. (Read "The AIG Bonuses: Getting Mad and Getting Even...
...Several observers think Cheney may be starting to feel the heat from Democrats' efforts to investigate the Bush Administration's counterterrorism policies - policies Cheney advocated, and for which his protégés allegedly provided the legal basis. But if he was trying to deflect attention from Bush-era policies, Cheney's aggression will likely have the opposite effect. "If his goal was to tamp down talk of a truth commission, he has probably exacerbated the problem," a veteran Republican told TIME. (See pictures inside Guantánamo...
...same time, the Justice Department has released controversial memos authored by John Yoo, a Cheney protg at the Office of Legal Counsel, which critics say authorized the mistreatment of terrorist suspects. Pressure is also growing on the department to release the report of an internal ethics probe into the actions of Yoo and two other OLC lawyers. Many Democrats would like to see Yoo and Cheney's own lawyer, David Addington, investigated for their role in creating the Bush Administration's so-called torture doctrine. And on the weekend of Cheney's CNN appearance, a leaked Red Cross report...