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--One darkhorse who is exacting comment, though, is Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens, an accomplished leader who has spent the last four years as the Number Two GOP man in the Senate, the Majority Whip. Stevens has been running on the issue of Senate procedural reform, and experts say that cause...
Finally, last week a compromise was reached after endless negotiations that left the office of Alaska's Ted Stevens, Senate floor manager for the funding bill, strewn with litter. The end was in sight. The Democratic House completed its chores, and most of its members scurried out of Washington...
(6 of 12) rights. Stevens bitterly accused his colleagues of violating "any civilized standard of decency." Such frankness has not won him friends among the Brethren Says a former Burger clerk: "The Justices may squabble among themselves, but they don't go telling the neighbors."
IT IS LIKELY that the Constitution's framers would be turning in their graves at the majority's application of simple cost-benefit analysis on a question involving one of that document's most sacred amendments. Their decision "ignores the fundamental constitutional importance of what is at stake here," said...
Coupled with a similarly conservative move last month to allow admission of illegally obtained evidence if it would have inevitably been discovered, this decision sends a dangerous message to law enforcers--telling them that they will not always be held accountable for their actions and probably increasing their inclinations to...