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...their crimes. He ruled that evidence obtained by the FBI while monitoring a suspect for several months in his hotel suite without a warrant was permissible because police turned on video cameras only when an informant who was cooperating with officers entered the suspect's hotel room. In an opinion later overturned by the Supreme Court, he upheld a man's death sentence?even though his lawyers had failed to present evidence that he was abused as a child and had limited mental capacity?saying the defendant was demanding that his defense attorneys be more resourceful than the Constitution requires...
After Alito's three years as U.S. Attorney, President George H.W. Bush tapped him to be an appeals court judge in Newark, a position he has held for 15 years. When Alito was first nominated, it was expected that Democrats would attack him for his opinions as a judge, particularly a 1991 dissenting opinion in which he defended a Pennsylvania law that said a woman must notify her husband before she has an abortion. Democrats also seized on Alito's record of ruling against employees who allege gender or racial discrimination. They were alarmed too by the 1985 Justice Department...
...soul. On Jan. 23 Canadians will vote for a new Parliament, and in this normally unflappable nation there's a restless and angry mood that bodes ill for the governing Liberal Party. With two weeks remaining before the vote, Prime Minister Paul Martin was running second in opinion surveys behind Conservative Party Leader Stephen Harper, whose right-of-center platform of taxation, gun control and same-sex marriage (he doesn't like any of them) until recently seemed to place him well outside the Canadian mainstream. Why the turnabout? Because Canada is having a nationwide attack of virtue. Corruption scandals...
...Yeah, this is a personal opinion. We need to [consider] what the public perceives FEMA's role should have been and what statutorily FEMA's role is. Their protocol for a disaster is that locals go to the states, states go to the Federal government, and they bring resources in. When we hit that tipping point and the city flooded, it was not within FEMA's mission, capabilities or competency to go out and direct actual rescue operations. The Coast Guard came in and did it because we're trained to do that. And whatever issues there are with FEMA...
Israeli voters still want to be led by Ariel Sharon. That seemed to be the message from an opinion poll conducted Thursday afternoon, as the Prime Minister lay comatose in a Jerusalem hospital, fighting for his life after eight hours of surgery following a massive brain hemorrhage. Kadima, the party Sharon recently created in his own image, continues to poll some 40 seats in the Knesset, more than double the share of its nearest rivals in Labor and Likud. But with doctors indicating that there is only an extremely slim chance that the 77-year-old Sharon will resume...