Word: pryor
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...administration bent on keeping its conservative base happy, though, tacking way right on judicial nominees and clashing with the opposition has no real downside. Proof that Bush isn?t changing course: his nomination earlier this month of Alabama Attorney General William Pryor to an appellate court seat. Pryor, besides being vigorously anti-abortion and plenty willing to smudge the line separating church and state, last year criticized a Supreme Court ruling that state corrections officers could be sued for tying prisoners to hitching posts for long periods because they should have known that it was cruel and unusual punishment. Pryor...
...November 2000, then-director David H. Pryor disbanded the IOP’s self-selecting SAC to institute open elections for the student governing board...
ARKANSAS Mark Pryor defeated Republican Senator Tim Hutchinson in the Democrats' only pickup of the night...
...Senators next year will include Mark Pryor of Arkansas, whose father David held the same seat for 18 years, and John Sununu of New Hampshire, son and namesake of the former Governor and White House chief of staff for Bush I. Also Liddy Dole of North Carolina, wife of the former Senate majority leader and presidential candidate. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, whose father was mayor of New Orleans and a member of Jimmy Carter's Cabinet, is favored in a runoff. In the Senate they'll all join Evan Bayh of Indiana and Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, both sons...
While several candidates who unapologetically support abortion lost their Senate bids, Senate Democrats did pick up a seat in Arkansas where Senator-Elect Mark Pryor essentially ducked the abortion issue. When pressed, Pryor said that while he personally opposes abortion, he believes a woman should have the right to choose in cases of rape or incest. Combined with questions about Sen. Hutchinson’s “family values,” this was enough for Democrats who oppose abortion to feel comfortable supporting Pryor...